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Table 1 Selected socioeconomic characteristics

From: Determinants of malnutrition among urban slum children in Bangladesh

 

Nutrition Status

All

Pearson Chi-square P-value

Normal

Moderately Malnourished

Severely Malnourished

Child < 5 Characteristics

 

Frequency

28.2

20.7

51.1

-

-

Female

36.7

50.0

58.4

50.6

0.051a

Mean Age

33.9

36.5

27.9

31.3

0.055a

Illness Incidence

34.7

55.6

40.4

42.0

0.144

Maternal Characteristics

 

Literacy

0.857

0.500

0.573

0.638

0.062a

Working

1.184

1.139

1.056

1.109

0.316

Household Characteristics

 

Family Size

4.55

4.58

4.56

4.56

0.896

Income

7,338

5,757

5,144

5,889

0.040a

Poverty

44.9

50.0

67.4

57.5

0.022a

Asset Index

0.099

0.073

0.084

0.086

0.544

Owns Land

46.9

36.1

33.7

37.9

0.299

Has Saving Habit

26.5

22.2

20.2

22.4

0.696

  1. Maternal Education is coded 0 for no education, 1 for some education but less than primary, 2 for higher than primary but less than secondary, 3 for secondary and greater; Poverty defined as households earning less than USD 2 (BDT 167) per day; Household (weighted) Asset Index created from ownership of common household assets as follows (weights in brackets set according to approximate local prices): radio (1), mobile (2), cycle (5), boat (10), rickshaw (25), bedding (1), almira (1), chair/table (0.5), fishing net (1), sewing machine (2), cow/ox (10), goat (3), hen/duck (0.5) and TV (5). For example, if a household owned only a rickshaw, bedding and cow, the weighted asset index value for that household would be 36/67 = 0.537
  2. a = significant at the 10 percent level
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