A district-level geospatial analysis of anaemia prevalence among rural men in India, 2019-21

Table 3 Moran’s I statistic showing spatial dependence of anaemia among rural men and different independent variables across districts of India, NFHS-5, 2019-21 (N = 707)

Variables (District level)	Univariate		Bivariate (Anaemia prevalence and correlates)
Variables (District level)	Moran’s I	p-value	Moran’s I	p-value
Anaemia prevalence (%)	0.53	0.001	NA	NA
Older men (%)	0.21	0.001	0.14	0.001
No education (%)	0.54	0.001	0.31	0.001
ST (%)	0.70	0.001	0.23	0.121
Muslim (%)	0.60	0.001	0.28	0.001
Poorest wealth status (%)	0.74	0.001	0.35	0.001
Underweight (%)	0.51	0.001	0.16	0.172
Alcohol (%)	0.55	0.001	0.17	0.001
Smoking (%)	0.67	0.001	0.26	0.001

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