Deciphering disparities in childhood stunting in an underdeveloped state of India: an investigation applying the unconditional quantile regression method

Table 1 Some important demographic and health indicators of Bihar in 1992-93 and 2015-16

Demographic and Health Indicators	1992-93	2015-16
Sex ratio (female/1000 male)	956^a	1062^c
% population aged 6+ that is literate	44.6^a	66.9^c
% female population aged 6+ that is literate	28.6^a	57.0^c
Child (0-6 years) sex ratio	944^a	939^c
Infant mortality rate	89.2^a	48.2^c
Total fertility rate	3.25^a	3.40^c
% mothers who had at least 3 ANC for last birth	30.7^a	14.4^c
% skilled attendance at delivery	19.0^a	70.0^c
% institutional delivery	13.0^a	63.8^c
Head count poverty ratio	61%^b	34%^b
Singulate Mean age at marriage	18.0^a	19.5^d

Sources: ^aNFHS 1 (1992-93); ^bWorld Bank 2016; ^c NFHS 4 (2015-16); ^dIIPS 2016

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