International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 3 Decomposition of concentration Index for stunting and underweight among children below age 5 years in India,2015–16

From: Socio-economic inequality in malnutrition among children in India: an analysis of 640 districts from National Family Health Survey (2015–16)

Variables	Stunting				Underweight
Variables	Coefficient	Elasticity	C.I	% Contribution	Coefficient	Elasticity	C.I	% Contribution
Female child	−0.033	−0.042	−0.005	−0.190	−0.057	−10.493	−0.451	−0.481
Birth size (> = normal)	0.022	0.050	0.008	−0.404	0.094^*	28.806	0.803	−2.348
Birth order	6.998^*	0.391	−0.074	28.785	−2.731^*	−12.044	−7.356	−8.997
Female literacy	−0.123^*	−0.218	0.139	30.283	−0.215^*	−0.433	0.139	61.170
Height of mother	−1.854^*	−7.348	0.005	35.322	−1.680^*	−5.773	0.481	28.182
Safe drinking facility	−0.007	−0.007	0.354	2.613	−0.041^*	−0.982	0.353	3.530
Open defecation	0.093^*	0.094	−0.259	24.275	0.141^*	14.867	−0.259	39.178
Rural Population	−0.008	−0.015	− 0.132	−1.994	−0.033^*	−5.971	− 0.132	−8.006
Muslim	−0.001	0.000	−0.120	− 0.046	−0.034^*	0.074	−0.259	0.019
Scheduled caste and tribes	−0.036^*	−0.036	− 0.468	−16.885	0.004	4.418	−0.599	2.690
Central	−0.886	−0.007	− 0.175	−1.187	0.771	1.038	−0.175	1.850
East	−4.833^*	−0.027	−0.547	−14.509	−3.283^*	−1.546	− 0.546	−8.587
Northeast	−4.660^*	−0.017	− 0.286	−4.952	−9.274^*	−0.479	− 0.285	−1.392
West	2.079^*	0.004	0.413	−1.530	6.418^*	2.330	0.413	−9.773
South	−1.904^*	−0.005	0.500	2.405	−1.461	−0.493	0.499	2.503
Residual				18.020				0.460
Total			−0.101	100			−0.098	100
Adjusted R²	0.740				0.691

*Significance at 5%

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