Assessing Vulnerability to Chronic Undernutrition among Under-Five Children in Egypt: Contextual Determinants of an Individual Consequence

Table 3

Random coefficients, intraclass correlation and variance decomposition.

Parameters	Null model	Full model
	Random effects
𝜎^2 (region)	0.054	0.013
SE	0.037	0.217
Proportions of overall (null model) explained by model covariates		75.730
𝜎^2 (cluster)	0.538	0.479
SE	0.054	0.696
Proportions of overall (null model) explained by model covariates		10.932
𝜎^2 (household)	0.397	0.270
SE	0.197	1.078
Proportions of overall (null model) explained by model covariates		31.916
𝜎^2 (mother)	1.732	1.177
SE	0.200	1.932
Proportions of overall (null model) explained by model covariates		32.023
Residual^2	0.540	0.457
SE	0.012	0.500
Intraclass correlation
Ψ (region)	0.017	0.005
Ψ (cluster)	0.220	0.197
Ψ (household)	0.851	0.714
Ψ (mother)	1.520	1.253
Variance decomposition
Region	2.0	0.7
Cluster	19.8	24.7
Household	14.6	13.9
Mother	63.7	60.7