Poor and non-poor gap in under-five child nutrition: a case from Nepal using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition approach

Bhusal, Umesh Prasad

doi:10.1186/s12913-022-08643-6

Table 4 Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition showing contribution of all categories of variables towards endowments effect, coefficients effect and interaction effect, Nepal MICS 2019 (N = 6277)

From: Poor and non-poor gap in under-five child nutrition: a case from Nepal using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition approach

		Endowments effect			Coefficients effect			Interaction effect
Variable	Variable categories	Coefficient	Std. err	Percent contribution	Coefficient	Std. err	Percent contribution	Coefficient	Std. err	Percent contribution
Child’s age (months)	Child’s age (months)	-0.003	0.010	-1.3	0.027	0.087	8.8	0.0001	0.001	-0.2
Child’s sex	Female	-0.001	0.001	-0.5	0.015	0.022	4.9	-0.001	0.001	0.8
	Male	-0.001	0.001	-0.5	-0.016	0.023	-5.2	-0.001	0.001	0.8
Mother’s age at birth	< 20 years	-0.003	0.003	-1.4	-0.044**	0.021	-14.2	0.010*	0.005	-13.6
	20–34 years	0.000	0.003	-0.2	0.066	0.056	21.3	0.006	0.005	-8.3
	> 34 years	0.001	0.002	0.5	0.008	0.009	2.6	-0.002	0.003	3.1
Maternal education	No formal	0.017*	0.010	8.0	0.015	0.032	4.8	-0.007	0.015	9.8
	Primary	0.009*	0.005	4.0	-0.007	0.019	-2.3	0.003	0.007	-3.6
	Secondary	-0.002	0.002	-1.0	0.030	0.029	9.7	0.002	0.003	-3.2
	Higher secondary and above	0.062***	0.015	28.8	-0.008	0.009	-2.6	-0.017	0.019	24.7
Number of under-five children in household	One	-0.004	0.009	-1.8	0.108*	0.059	35.0	0.023*	0.013	-31.9
	Two	0.001	0.008	0.7	0.032	0.043	10.3	-0.009	0.012	12.9
	Three	0.001	0.003	0.3	0.005	0.015	1.6	-0.002	0.005	2.4
	Four or more	0.001	0.003	0.7	-0.002	0.001	-0.5	-0.007	0.005	10.1
Type of toilet facility	Improved	0.006	0.005	3.0	0.043	0.084	14.0	0.004	0.007	-5.0
	Unimproved	0.006	0.005	3.0	-0.006	0.011	-1.9	0.004	0.007	-5.0
Ethnic group	Brahmin, Chhetri and Madhesi	0.006	0.009	3.0	-0.027	0.048	-8.6	-0.006	0.010	7.9
	Janajati and Newar	-0.001	0.004	-0.6	0.031	0.042	10.0	-0.003	0.005	4.3
	Dalit and Muslim	0.010	0.012	4.5	0.052*	0.030	16.8	-0.025*	0.015	35.9
	Others (eg. Marwadi, Bangali)	0.002	0.019	1.0	-0.011	0.014	-3.7	-0.016	0.020	22.5
Residence	Rural	0.018*	0.011	8.2	0.015	0.027	4.9	-0.008	0.015	11.8
	Urban	0.018*	0.011	8.2	-0.014	0.025	-4.5	-0.008	0.015	11.8
Province	Province 1	-0.009	0.009	-4.0	-0.010	0.020	-3.1	0.001	0.003	-2.1
	Madhesh	0.017	0.018	8.0	-0.007	0.024	-2.1	-0.006	0.021	8.1
	Bagmati	-0.012	0.017	-5.8	0.017	0.012	5.5	0.028	0.020	-39.2
	Gandaki	0.007*	0.004	3.1	-0.011*	0.007	-3.6	-0.006	0.004	9.1
	Lumbini	0.004	0.004	1.9	-0.011	0.021	-3.6	0.002	0.004	-3.1
	Karnali	0.047***	0.012	21.6	0.027	0.025	8.9	-0.026	0.024	36.4
	Sudurpaschim	0.019**	0.009	8.7	0.003	0.019	1.0	-0.002	0.012	2.9
_cons					-0.013	0.197	-4.1
Total		0.210		100.0	0.308		100.0	-0.071		100.0

Std. err Standard error, MICS Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey
^***p < 0.001, **p < 0.05, **p ≤ 0.1

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