Rural-urban disparities in child nutrition in Bangladesh and Nepal

Srinivasan, Chittur S; Zanello, Giacomo; Shankar, Bhavani

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-581

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Unconditional Recentred Influence Function (RIF) quantile regression results for rural and urban households in Bangladesh

From: Rural-urban disparities in child nutrition in Bangladesh and Nepal

Dependent variable: HAZ score
	RURAL						URBAN
	OLS	Quantiles					OLS	Quantiles
		10	25	50	75	90		10	25	50	75	90
Female gender of child	−0.04	−0.01	0.05	−0.05	−0.08	−0.27***	0.04	0.00	0.03	0.08	0.08	−0.08
Female gender of child	(0.04)	(0.08)	(0.06)	(0.05)	(0.06)	(0.09)	(0.06)	(0.10)	(0.08)	(0.08)	(0.08)	(0.10)
Age of Child	−0.24***	−0.11***	−0.15***	−0.23***	−0.31***	−0.44***	−0.20***	−0.08**	−0.14***	−0.19***	−0.26***	−0.28***
Age of Child	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.04)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.04)	(0.05)
Child vaccinated	−0.18***	0.08	0.01	−0.20***	−0.33***	−0.41***	−0.06	0.05	−0.04	−0.09	−0.12	−0.09
Child vaccinated	(0.05)	(0.08)	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.09)	(0.06)	(0.10)	(0.09)	(0.07)	(0.08)	(0.11)
Age of mother	0.00	−0.02**	−0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01*	0.02***	−0.01	0.00	0.01	0.03***	0.03***
Age of mother	(0.00)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.00)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)
Mother’s working status	0.09*	0.13	0.13*	0.09	0.10	0.13	−0.04	−0.20	−0.03	−0.05	0.04	0.03
Mother’s working status	(0.05)	(0.10)	(0.07)	(0.07)	(0.07)	(0.10)	(0.07)	(0.14)	(0.11)	(0.09)	(0.09)	(0.12)
Mother’s education (yrs)	0.01*	0.04**	0.02**	0.01*	0.02	0.00	0.04***	0.03**	0.04***	0.05***	0.04**	0.04**
Mother’s education (yrs)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.02)	(0.01)	(0.02)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.02)
Husband’s education (yrs)	0.02***	0.02**	0.02***	0.02***	0.02***	0.03**	0.04***	0.04**	0.05***	0.04***	0.05***	0.03**
Husband’s education (yrs)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.02)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)
Wealth index	0.26***	0.20***	0.27***	0.29***	0.27***	0.37***	0.13***	0.09	0.08*	0.16***	0.11**	0.13**
Wealth index	(0.04)	(0.07)	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.11)	(0.03)	(0.06)	(0.05)	(0.04)	(0.05)	(0.06)
Extended family dummy	0.05	−0.12	−0.02	0.04	0.05	0.22**	0.07	−0.01	0.01	0.12	0.14	0.05
Extended family dummy	(0.05)	(0.09)	(0.07)	(0.06)	(0.07)	(0.09)	(0.06)	(0.10)	(0.08)	(0.08)	(0.09)	(0.11)
Dependency ratio	−0.05	−0.08	−0.04	−0.10**	−0.07	−0.05	−0.02	0.01	0.05	−0.08	−0.04	0.06
Dependency ratio	(0.03)	(0.06)	(0.05)	(0.04)	(0.04)	(0.06)	(0.05)	(0.09)	(0.07)	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.09)
No. of children (<5 yrs)	0.02	−0.07	−0.04	0.06	0.11**	0.12	0.03	0.02	−0.05	0.00	0.10	0.09
No. of children (<5 yrs)	(0.04)	(0.08)	(0.06)	(0.05)	(0.05)	(0.08)	(0.06)	(0.10)	(0.09)	(0.07)	(0.07)	(0.09)
Constant	−1.25***	−2.76***	−2.20***	−1.30***	−0.47**	0.50*	−2.10***	−3.37***	−2.65***	−2.02***	−1.50***	−0.74**
Constant	(0.14)	(0.30)	(0.20)	(0.16)	(0.19)	(0.27)	(0.18)	(0.31)	(0.25)	(0.24)	(0.24)	(0.32)
N	3425	3425	3425	3425	3425	3425	1842	1842	1842	1842	1842	1842
R-sq	0.11	0.03	0.05	0.08	0.09	0.07	0.18	0.04	0.09	0.15	0.13	0.07
adj. R-sq	0.10	0.03	0.05	0.07	0.08	0.07	0.18	0.04	0.09	0.15	0.12	0.07

Figures in brackets are standard errors: Asterisks denote level of significance -***, ** and * denote significance at 1%, 5% and 10% level of significance respectively.

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