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Table 1 List of circumstance categories

From: Inequality in health opportunities in Indonesia: long-term influence of early-life circumstances on health

Category

Variables

Demography

Sex, religion, ethnicity

Location

Provinces, urban

Family structure

Mother’s teenage pregnancy, parental divorce †, living with biological mother and farther †, family size

Parental health

Paternal BMI, maternal BMI, paternal height, maternal hight

Parental education

Paternal education years, maternal education years

Living standards

wealth ∗, number of books †, hunger experiment †,

Housing

Wall, roof, floor, electricity access, clean water access, clean toilet, Sanitary conditions

Parental occupation

Self-employment, government worker, private sector worker, family business worker, industry types (primary/secondary/service)

Healthcare access

Knowledge of local public hospitals, private hospitals, public health centres (puskesmas), private clinics, private physicians, nurses/paramedics/midwife practitioners.

  1. Note: † This is when respondents were 12 years old. ∗The logarithmic family-size adjusted amount is used