Explaining Sex Differentials in Child Mortality in India: Trends and Determinants

Table 2

Pyatt’s Gini decomposition of change in male-female differential in child mortality in India during 1992–2006.

Decomposed categories	1992-93; (NFHS-1)		1998-99; (NFHS-2)		2005-06; (NFHS-3)
	Gini indices	%	Gini indices	%	Gini indices	%
Contribution from between inequality	0.004	0.99	0.004	1.02	0.001	0.53
Contribution from overlap	0.177	48.95	0.173	48.91	0.135	49.41
Contribution from within inequality	0.181	50.05	0.177	50.72	0.137	50.06
Total inequality	0.361	100	0.353	100	0.273	100

Note: figures might be affected by rounding.