Trends and Determinants of Underweight among Under-Five Children in Ethiopia: Data from EDHS

Table 3

Multivariate decomposition of different characteristics from 2000 to 2016 of EDHS.

	2000 EDHS-2016 EDHS		2005EDHS-2016 EDHS		2011EDHS-2016 EDHS
Characteristics	Endowments	Coefficients	Endowments	Coefficients	Endowments	Coefficients
Household level
Place of residence	1.5-2	0.123	1.9-4	0.103	3.02-4	0.050
Access to improved water source	-2.2-3	-0.008	3.9-3	-0.011	2.51-4	0.002
Access to improved toilet source	0.022	-0.040	2.8-3	-0.021	1.1-3	-0.005
Wealth index			-8.2-3	0.042	1.3-3	0.019
Child level
Sex of child	-15-4	0.046	-4.6-4	0.010	3.9-5	-0.018
Anemia level			-3.4-2	0.032	-4.3-3	-0.322
Diarrhea status			1.6-3	8.9-4	7.7-4	0.003
Currently breastfeeding	5.0-5	0.005	1.3-3	0.017	3.4-4	-7.3-4
Birth order	1.4-3	0.022	2.1-3	0.074	2.1-3	0.013
Types of birth	-1.4-3	-1.6-4	-1.2-3	0.004	-1.4-4	1.94
Birth interval	-7.6-5	0.030	-1.1-3	0.013	-3.9-4	0.011
Mother level
Educational status	0.017	0.006	8.1-3	-0.001	7.4-3	8.6-3
Religion	-3.8-4	-0.005	-1-4	-0.011	2.8-5	-2.7-4
Working status	5.4-3	-0.002	-7.1-4	-0.003	1.6-4	-0.009
Occupation			-7-5	-0.009	1.2-4	0.026
Age category		0.065	1.8-6	-0.024	1.2-4	-0.027
Total children ever born	-0.027	-0.028	-1.5-4	-0.009	-1.5-3	-0.026
Births in last five years	-0.039	-0.040	-1.1-4	-0.029	-6.5-3	-0.038
Age at first birth	0.047	0.0460	1.4-3	0.043	1.2-3	0.066
Constant		-0.070		-0.103		0.0065
Total percent	3.63-2				2.4E-3
Difference (%)	-19.53		-9.97		-5.01

Key: value < 0.05; value < 0.01; value < 0.001.