Newborn low birth weight: do socio-economic inequality still persist in India?

Mishra, Prem Shankar; Sinha, Debashree; Kumar, Pradeep; Srivastava, Shobhit; Bawankule, Rahul

doi:10.1186/s12887-021-02988-3

Table 4 Estimates of decomposition analysis for the contribution of various explanatory variables for low birth weight children in India, 2015–16

From: Newborn low birth weight: do socio-economic inequality still persist in India?

Background characteristics	Coefficient	Elasticity	CCI	Absolute Contribution to CCI	Percentage contribution
Age at index birth
≤ 19 (Ref.)
20–24	− 0.196***	− 0.009	0.004	0.000	0.4
25–29	− 0.264***	− 0.003	0.073	0.000	2.6
30–35	−0.286***	− 0.001	0.024	0.000	0.1
35+	− 0.261**	− 0.001	0.024	0.000	0.1
Body mass index
Underweight	0.239***	0.009	−0.219	− 0.002	21.9
Normal (Ref.)
Overweight and Obese	−0.072***	− 0.002	0.330	− 0.001	6.4
ANC
No (Ref.)
Partial	−0.285***	− 0.031	− 0.056	0.002	−18.6
Full	−0.446***	− 0.016	0.231	− 0.004	39.4
Birth order and interval
First (Ref.)
2–3 & < 24 months	−0.118***	−0.002	− 0.046	0.000	−1.1
2–3 & > 23 months	− 0.170***	−0.010	0.024	0.000	2.5
4+ & < 24 months	−0.050	0.000	−0.397	0.000	−1.3
4+ & > 23 months	−0.209***	−0.003	− 0.374	0.001	−11.6
Education
No education (Ref.)
Primary	0.036	0.001	−0.273	0.000	3.5
Secondary	−0.094***	−0.005	0.091	0.000	5.1
Higher	−0.308***	−0.006	0.579	−0.003	34.8
Caste
Scheduled Caste	0.054**	0.000	−0.158	0.000	0.5
Scheduled Tribe	−0.077***	0.001	−0.396	0.000	2.1
Other Backward Class	−0.030	−0.002	0.036	0.000	0.6
Others (Ref.)
Religion
Hindu (Ref.)
Muslim	−0.058**	−0.002	0.036	0.000	0.6
Others	−0.233***	−0.001	0.221	0.000	1.4
Wealth index
Poorest (Ref.)
Poorer	−0.056**	−0.002	−0.463	0.001	−8.5
Middle	−0.093***	−0.003	− 0.055	0.000	−1.7
Richer	−0.089**	−0.003	0.376	−0.001	10.1
Richest	−0.240***	−0.009	0.798	−0.007	73.7
Residence
Urban (Ref.)
Rural	−0.114***	−0.007	− 0.212	0.001	−15.7
Sex of the child
Male (Ref.)
Female	0.204***	0.013	−0.002	0.000	0.3
Region
North (Ref.)
Central	−0.080***	−0.004	−0.107	0.000	−4.5
East	−0.394***	−0.015	− 0.340	0.005	−56.2
Northeast	−0.682***	−0.003	− 0.220	0.001	−7.1
West	−0.066**	−0.003	0.158	−0.001	5.8
South	−0.175***	−0.008	0.202	−0.002	18.0
Source of drinking Water
Not improved (Ref.)
Improved^b	0.030	−0.002	0.005	0.000	0.1
Type of toilet facility
Not improved (Ref.)
Improved^c	0.003	−0.001	0.321	0.000	4.8
Type of cooking fuel
Unclean (Ref.)
Clean^d	−0.039*	0.002	0.472	0.001	−8.1
Calculated CCI				−0.009
Actual CCI				−0.056
Residual				−0.047

Ref. Reference category, CCI Concentration index
***p < 0.01; **p < 0.05; *p < 0.10
^aFull ANC defined as women who received four or more antenatal checks, at least two tetanus toxoid injection, and took iron and folic acid tablets or syrup for 100 days or more during their last live birth in the 5 years preceding the survey
^bInclude piped water, public taps, standpipes, tube wells, boreholes, protected dug wells and springs, rainwater, and community reverse osmosis (RO) plants
^cInclude flush/pour flush toilets to piped sewer systems, septic tanks, and pit latrines; ventilated improved pit (VIP)/biogas latrines; pit latrines with slabs; and twin pit/composting toilets
^dInclude Electricity, LPG/natural gas, biogas

Back to article page