Layers of Socioeconomic Vulnerability in Malawi in the Context of the Millennium Development Goals

Table 2

Ordered probit regression analysis of wealth status ranking on selected individual characteristics, Malawi DHS 2010.

Variable	Coefficient	𝑧-statistic
Age	0.02	17.44*
Current marital status
Never married (r)	—	—
Married/cohabiting	−0.43	−19.51*
Widowed/divorced/separated	−0.58	−19.32*
Sex of household head
Male (r)	—	—
Female	−0.31	−16.50*
Region of residence
Northern (r)	—	—
Central	−0.47	−22.68*
Southern	−0.23	−11.66*
Religion
Mainstream Christianity (r)	—	—
Other Christianity	−0.32	−20.77*
Islam	−0.17	−7.23*
Formal schooling
None (r)	—	—
Some schooling	0.59	27.02*
LR 𝜒^2	2,718.46	—
Prob > 𝜒^2	0.000	—
Log likelihood	−35353.10	—
Number of observations	22,814	—

∗significant at 𝑃<0.001; “r”: reference category.