Measuring early childhood development with The Early Human Capability Index (eHCI): a reliability and validity study in China

Table 6 Associations between demographic and social economic status and eHCI scores

	Overall Development			Literacy Numeracy
	N	Age-adjusted	Multivariate-adjusted^a	N	Age-adjusted	Multivariate-adjusted^a
Sex	20,232			20,231
boys		Ref.	Ref.		Ref.	Ref.
girls		0.026^***	0.025^***		0.019^***	0.017^***
		(0.002)	(0.002)		(0.002)	(0.002)
Parental education	20,182			20,181
Secondary education and lower (Under Grade 12)		Ref.	Ref.		Ref.	Ref.
Tertiary education		0.052^***	0.036^***		0.116^***	0.092^***
		(0.002)	(0.003)		(0.003)	(0.004)
Post-graduate		0.086^***	0.059^***		0.179^***	0.138^***
		(0.003)	(0.003)		(0.004)	(0.005)
Annual household income	18,950			18,949
< 100,000 RMB		Ref.	Ref.		Ref.	Ref.
100,000–300,000 RMB		0.034^***	0.017^***		0.071^***	0.034^***
		(0.002)	(0.002)		(0.003)	(0.003)
> 300,000		0.067^***	0.040^***		0.123^***	0.068^***
		(0.002)	(0.003)		(0.003)	(0.004)
Family assets quantile	19,030			19,029
1[poorest]		Ref.	Ref.		Ref.	Ref.
2		0.016^***	0.003		0.032^***	0.004
		(0.002)	(0.002)		(0.003)	(0.003)
3		0.027^***	0.008^***		0.049^***	0.013^***
		(0.002)	(0.002)		(0.003)	(0.003)
4[richest]		0.036^***	0.012^***		0.054^***	0.010^**
		(0.002)	(0.002)		(0.003)	(0.004)
Nutrition status	20,227
Non-stunting		Ref.	Ref.		Ref.	Ref.
Stunting		−0.06^***	−0.04^***		−0.08^***	−0.03^**
		(0.006)	(0.006)		(0.009)	(0.009)

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