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 3 Descriptive Statistics of Circumstance Variables by countries: mean, standard deviation (in parenthesis), range (in brackets) for quantitative variables and percentage of the reference category for the dummy variables

Circumstance variables	Residence area	Gender of Child	Number of children 0–5	Age of household head	Father’s education	Mother’s education	Economic Wellbing	Most advantage Group
Countries	Residence area	Gender of Child	Number of children 0–5	Age of household head	Father’s education	Mother’s education	Economic Wellbing	Most advantage Group
Congo Democratic Republic	59.99	49.69	1.75 (0.97) [0–9]	43.37 (12.43) [17–94]	30.97	56.52	56.89	86.80
Guinea Bissau	79.51	47.47	2.73 (1.53) [1–10]	51.1 (14.31) [19–95]	81.28	86.04	81.65	13.58
Mali	83.83	49.72	3.24 (2.09) [1–14]	54.26 (15.02) [15–95]	83.25	82.67	64.67	5.98

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