Research Article

The Relationship between Stunting and Some Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors among Yemeni Children and Adolescents

Table 2

The means and standard deviations (SD) of HAZ according to age groups.

Variablesā€‰5 - 10 years10 - 19 years
MeanSDMeanSD

School EnrollmentYes-1.61.7-2.11.4
No-2.22.0-1.91.6
Residence AreaUrban-2.01.8-2.11.3
Rural-1.80.9-2.10.7
SexMale-1.91.8-2.11.5
Female-1.81.9-2.11.5
Poverty StatusPoor-2.01.8-2.11.6
Non-poor-1.81.8-2.11.4
Income Wealth Index QuintilesPoorest-2.02.1-2.31.4
Second-2.21.8-2.31.6
Middle-2.01.6-2.31.4
Fourth-1.81.6-2.01.4
Richest-1.72.1-1.91.5
Allā€‰-1.91.8-2.11.5