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

Table 2 Percentile of HAZ score in NFHS 1, NFHS 2, NFHS 3 and NFHS 4 in Bihar and India

Bihar	NFHS 1	NFHS 2	NFHS 3	NFHS 4	Absolute increase btw NFHS 1 and NFHS 2	Absolute increase btw NFHS 2 and NFHS 3	Absolute increase btw NFHS 3 and NFHS 4
10	−4.92	− 4.89	− 4.03	−3.74	0.03	0.86	0.29
25	−3.85	−3.75	−2.95	− 2.81	0.10	0.80	0.14
50	−2.49	− 2.46	−1.93	− 1.80	0.03	0.54	0.13
75	− 1.09	− 1.08	−0.84	−0.61	0.01	0.24	0.23
90	0.12	0.36	0.19	0.65	0.24	−0.17	0.46
Overall	−2.36	−2.28	−1.89	−1.63	0.07	0.40	0.26
India	NFHS 1	NFHS 2	NFHS 3	NFHS 4	Absolute increase btw NFHS 1 and NFHS 2	Absolute increase btw NFHS 2 and NFHS 3	Absolute increase btw NFHS 3 and NFHS 4
10	−4.26	−4.19	−3.72	−3.49	0.07	0.47	0.24
25	−3.16	− 3.10	−2.70	−2.48	0.06	0.40	0.22
50	−2.00	−1.96	−1.63	−1.43	0.04	0.33	0.20
75	−0.85	−0.82	−0.51	−0.27	0.03	0.31	0.24
90	0.32	0.31	0.64	0.99	−0.01	0.33	0.35
Overall	−1.94	−1.91	−1.55	−1.30	0.03	0.36	0.25

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