Table 3 Decomposition analysis estimates for women delivering babies at home by their background characteristics in India, NFHS-III & NFHS-IV
Background characteristics | 2005–06 | 2015–16 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Coefficient | Elasticity | CI | Absolute contribution | % contribution | Coefficient | Elasticity | CI | Absolute contribution | % contribution | |
Age at first birth | ||||||||||
 < 18 years |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 18–24 years | −0.220*** | −0.02 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 1.1 | −0.107*** | −0.019 | − 0.01 | 0.00 | − 0.2 |
 25 or more years | −0.728*** | − 0.01 | 0.41 | 0.00 | 2.1 | −0.336*** | −0.005 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 1.8 |
Parity | ||||||||||
 First parity |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Second parity | 0.556*** | 0.03 | 0.15 | 0.00 | −2.9 | 0.506*** | 0.019 | 0.11 | 0.00 | −2.9 |
 Third parity | 0.842*** | 0.03 | −0.02 | 0.00 | 0.3 | 0.764*** | 0.018 | − 0.11 | 0.00 | 2.9 |
 Four or more parity | 0.859*** | 0.04 | −0.26 | − 0.01 | 8.0 | 0.947*** | 0.027 | −0.35 | − 0.01 | 13.4 |
Ante-natal care | ||||||||||
 No |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Partial | −0.934*** | −0.07 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 1.6 | −0.924*** | −0.109 | − 0.04 | 0.00 | −6.4 |
 Full | −1.817*** | −0.02 | 0.48 | −0.01 | 8.3 | −1.67*** | − 0.036 | 0.31 | −0.01 | 15.9 |
Mass media exposure | ||||||||||
 No exposure |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Exposure | −0.217*** | − 0.02 | 0.19 | 0.00 | 2.7 | −0.265*** | − 0.047 | 0.19 | −0.01 | 12.9 |
Educational status | ||||||||||
 No education |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Primary | − 0.311*** | −0.01 | − 0.02 | 0.00 | − 0.1 | − 0.168*** | − 0.007 | − 0.17 | 0.00 | − 1.6 |
 Secondary | − 0.682*** | − 0.04 | 0.37 | − 0.02 | 12.0 | − 0.524*** | − 0.043 | 0.18 | − 0.01 | 11.3 |
 Higher | −1.78*** | −0.01 | 0.80 | −0.01 | 6.7 | −1.034*** | −0.010 | 0.64 | −0.01 | 9.2 |
Caste | ||||||||||
 Scheduled Caste | 0.316*** | 0.01 | −0.15 | 0.00 | 1.1 | 0.067*** | 0.001 | −0.13 | 0.00 | 0.2 |
 Scheduled Tribe | 0.723*** | 0.01 | −0.41 | 0.00 | 3.5 | 0.397*** | 0.007 | −0.36 | 0.00 | 3.4 |
 Other Backward Class | 0.34*** | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 | −0.1 | −0.041** | 0.000 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.0 |
 Others |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Religion | ||||||||||
 Hindu |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Muslim | 0.154*** | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.473*** | 0.013 | 0.03 | 0.00 | −0.5 |
 Others | −0.142*** | 0.00 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.45*** | 0.002 | 0.21 | 0.00 | −0.7 |
Wealth index | ||||||||||
 Poor |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Middle | −0.502*** | − 0.01 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 1.6 | −0.364*** | −0.011 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 2.3 |
 Rich | −1.132*** | −0.06 | 0.68 | −0.04 | 30.4 | −0.738*** | − 0.023 | 0.67 | − 0.02 | 21.6 |
Place of residence | ||||||||||
 Urban |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Rural | 0.725*** | 0.10 | −0.17 | −0.02 | 11.8 | 0.197*** | 0.008 | −0.18 | 0.00 | 2.1 |
Region | ||||||||||
 North |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Central | 0.137*** | 0.01 | −0.14 | 0.00 | 1.4 | 0.281*** | 0.015 | −0.12 | 0.00 | 2.6 |
 East | −0.364*** | 0.00 | −0.21 | 0.00 | −0.4 | 0.244*** | 0.016 | −0.33 | − 0.01 | 7.6 |
 Northeast | −0.154*** | 0.00 | −0.07 | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.547*** | 0.003 | −0.17 | 0.00 | 0.6 |
 West | −1.122*** | −0.02 | 0.28 | −0.01 | 3.7 | −0.332*** | − 0.004 | 0.23 | 0.00 | 1.1 |
 South | −1.839*** | −0.04 | 0.22 | −0.01 | 6.8 | −1.034*** | −0.008 | 0.31 | 0.00 | 3.4 |
Calculated CI |  |  |  | −0.143 | 100.0 |  |  |  | − 0.073 | 100.0 |
Actual CI |  |  |  | −0.247 |  |  |  |  | −0.391 |  |
Residual |  |  |  | −0.104 |  |  |  |  | −0.318 |  |