Table 11 Decomposition of Child Malnutrition Inequality (CI): Ranking Variable- Consumption
From: Dynamics of inequality in child under-nutrition in Ethiopia
| Regressors (k) | βk | HAZ | WHZ | WAZ | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elasticity | CI | Contribution | βk | Elasticity | CI | Contribution | βk | Elasticity | CI | Contribution | ||
| Age | .006**(.003) | .19 | .01 | .00(−.02) | −.015***(.002) | −.82 | −.00 | .00(−.15) | .008***(.002) | .27 | .01 | .00(−.03) |
| Age-square | −.000 (.000) | −18 | .01 | −.00(.04) | −.000(.000) | .53 | −.00 | −.00(.08) | −.000(.000) | −.07 | .01 | −.00(.02) |
| Sex | .080**(.035) | .02 | −.00 | −.00(.00) | −.016(.025) | −.01 | .00 | −.00(.00) | .091***(.026) | .03 | .00 | .00(−.00) |
| Illness incidence | .108***(0.041) | .01 | −.00 | −.00(.00) | .111***(.032) | .02 | .00 | .00(−.00) | .189***(.031) | .02 | −.01 | −.00(.00) |
| Water availability | −.072 (.056) | −.01 | .05 | −.00(.01) | .036 (.038) | .01 | .04 | .00(−.03) | −.003(.043) | −.00 | .04 | −.00(−.00) |
| Toilet type | .001(.017) | .00 | −.00 | −.00(.00) | .039***(.012) | .29 | −.00 | −.00(.05) | .040***(.013) | .18 | −.00 | −.00(.01) |
| Health post | −.137** | −.09 | .01 | −.00(.01) | .009(.061) | .01 | .01 | .00(.02) | −.083(.056) | −.06 | .01 | −.00(.01) |
| (.067) | ||||||||||||
| Mother educ | −.111*** | −.02 | .26 | −.01(.15) | −.027* (.016) | −.01 | .26 | −.00(.21) | −.074***(.017) | −.02 | .25 | −.01(.13) |
| (.021) | ||||||||||||
| Household size | −.024** | −.09 | −.03 | .00(−.06) | −.003(.008) | −.02 | −.03 | .00(−.05) | −.012(.008) | −.05 | −.03 | .00(−.04) |
| (.010) | ||||||||||||
| Household sizeU5 | −.032 (.025) | −.03 | −.01 | .00(−.01) | .001 (.019) | .00 | −.00 | −.00(.00) | −.045**(.020) | −.05 | −.01 | .00(−.01) |
| Rural-urban | yes | .04 | −.01 | −.00(.01) | yes | .15 | −.00 | −.00(.05) | yes | .17 | −.01 | −.00(.02) |
| Region | yes | −.01(.12) | yes | .00(−.27) | yes | −.00(.07) | ||||||
| variation | ||||||||||||
| Consumption | – | −.02(.48) | −.029(.023) | −.01(.71) | −.099***(.024) | −.02(.49) | ||||||
| .126***(.033) | ||||||||||||
| Quntile 1 | .02 | −.80 | −.02(.36) | .01 | −.80 | −.01(.54) | .02 | −.80 | −.02(.42) | |||
| Quntile 2 | .02 | −.40 | −.01(.13) | .01 | −.40 | −.00(.24) | .01 | −.40 | −.01(.13) | |||
| Quntile 3 | .01 | .00 | .00(−.00) | .02 | .01 | .00(−.02) | .02 | .01 | .00(−00) | |||
| Quntile 4 | .00 | .40 | .00(−.01) | .00 | .41 | .00(−.05) | .01 | .40 | .00(−.05) | |||
| Residual | −.013(.28) | −.006(.33) | −.014(.31) | |||||||||
| Observation | 8505 | 7973 | 9229 | |||||||||
| R2 | 0.039 | 0.045 | 0.052 | |||||||||