Child Welfare Deprivation in Rural Nigeria: A Counting Approach

Table 5

Dimensional deprivation rates of children by gender.

Dimension	All	Gender		Differences
		Male	Female
Safe drinking water	63.1	63.7	62.6	1.1
Sanitation	96.1	96.3	95.9	0.4
Housing	58.5	58.8	58.2	0.6
Health	79.2	79.2	79.3	−0.1
Nutrition	32.3	33.0	31.7	1.3

means that there are significant differences.