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Table 1 Asset quintiles and quartiles generated from scores of the first principal component

From: Boys are more stunted than girls in Sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-analysis of 16 demographic and health surveys

Socio-economic status

Zimbabwe 1999

Zambia 2001/2

Zambia 1996

Uganda 2000/1

Uganda 1995/6

Tanzania 1999

Tanzania 1996

Nigeria 2003

1st/poorest

624 (24%)

1826 (34%)

624 (11%)

1026 (20%)

993 (22%)

455 (20%)

1769 (34%)

918 (22%)

2nd

607 (23%)

 

1690 (31%)

974 (19%)

883 (20%)

469 (20%)

 

688 (16%)

3rd

286 (11%)

1547 (29%)

687 (13%)

1248 (25%)

709 (16%)

460 (20%)

1421 (28%)

1003 (23%)

4th

655 (25%)

936 (17%)

1503 (28%)

915 (18%)

1026 (23%)

474 (20%)

850 (17%)

710 (17%)

5th/wealthy

457 (17%)

1092 (20%)

949 (17%)

938 (18%)

861 (19%)

474 (20%)

1078 (21%)

917 (22%)

Total

2629

5401

5453

5101

4772

2332

5118

4236

 

Nigeria 1999

Namibia 2000

Malawi 2000

Kenya 2003

Kenya 1998

Ghana 2003

Ghana 1998

Cameroon 1998

1st/poorest

201 (15%)

586 (20%)

2187 (24%)

920 (20%)

573 (20%)

457 (15%)

528 (20%)

324 (20%)

2nd

283 (20%)

575 (20%)

1095 (12%)

1258 (27%)

553 (19%)

852 (28%)

798 (30%)

361 (21%)

3rd

244 (17%)

473 (16%)

1605 (18%)

899 (19%)

644 (23%)

590 (19%)

190 (08%)

321 (19%)

4th

316 (23%)

678 (24%)

2307 (25%)

764 (16%)

598 (21%)

590 (19%)

621 (24%)

328 (20%)

5th/wealthy

356 (25%)

577 (20%)

1932 (21%)

848 (18%)

496 (17%)

597 (19%)

482 (18%)

329 (20%)

Total

1400

2889

9126

4689

2864

3086

2619

1663