Assessing and decomposing inequality of opportunity in access to child health and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from three countries with low human development index

Table 2 Descriptive Statistics of Nutrition Outcome Variables by countries

Nutrition Outcome variables	Blood tests (%)	Stunting (%)	Wasting (%)	Underweight (%)
Countries	Blood tests (%)	Stunting (%)	Wasting (%)	Underweight (%)
Congo Democratic Republic	68.58	19.24	5.6	15.72
Guinea Bissau	51.85	18.34	5.93	10.7
Mali	69.17	15.09	11.56	16.99

Source: Authors, based on MICS data
Note: the values in the column “Blood tests” are relative to the percentage of children whose mothers have had a blood sample

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