3+ parity in Egypt: a multilevel decomposition of wealth-based inequality

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Contribution of individual and community level determinants based on the decomposition of concentration index analysis for 3+ parity (EDHS 2014)

Attributes	Coef.	Average	Elasticity	CI	Contribution to CI	% Contribution
Attributes	Full model
Predicted high parity	–	1.585			− 0.126
Individual level attributes
Age (ref:30–34)
35–39	0.434	0.270	0.077	0.009	0.001	−0.5
40–44	0.665	0.221	0.097	− 0.005	0.000	0.3
45–49	0.855	0.210	0.118	−0.009	− 0.001	0.7
Having less than secondary education	0.221	0.436	0.063	−0.286	−0.018	12.8
Husband with less than secondary education	0.061	0.377	0.015	−0.235	−0.004	2.5
Low standard of living	0.142	0.414	0.039	−0.438	−0.017	12.0
Marriage age < 18	0.710	0.287	0.134	−0.272	−0.036	25.9
Experienced child death	0.080	0.134	0.007	−0.233	−0.002	1.2
Having unmet need	0.180	0.096	0.011	−0.094	− 0.001	0.8
Area level attributes
First quartile of gendered context scale	0.097	0.299	0.019	−0.426	− 0.008	5.8
First quartile of environmental context scale	0.184	0.212	0.026	−0.491	−0.013	8.9
First quartile of health system	0.495	0.217	0.071	−0.445	−0.031	22.3

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