A multivariate decomposition analysis of different features in the 2005–2019 EDHS and 2011–2016 EDHS
| Characteristics | 2005–2019 EDHS | 2011–2016 EDHS | |||||||
| Endowments | Coefficients | Endowments | Coefficients | ||||||
| Coef with 95% CI | Per cent | Coef with 95% CI | Per cent | Coef with 95% CI | Per cent | Coef with 95% CI | Per cent | ||
| ANC (no as ref) Yes | 0.002 (−0.034 to 0.037) | −1.19 | −0.078 (−0.137 to 0.019)* | 49.94 | 0.0063 (−0.004 to 0.016) | −13.49 | −0.0313 (−0.077 to 0.015) | 66.90 | |
| Highest educational level | No education | −0.0024 (−0.051 to 0.046) | 1.56 | 0.016 (−0.214 to 0.245) | −10.05 | −0.0094 (−0.0193 to 0.0005) | 20.17 | 0.128 (−0.120 to 0.376) | −274.51 |
| Primary | 0.002 (−0.030 to 0.034) | −1.04 | 0.0023 (−0.048 to 0.052) | −1.45 | 0.005 (0.00052 to 0.0093)* | −10.47 | 0.065 (−0.037 to 0.169) | −139.87 | |
| Secondary | −0.0001 (−0.0024 to 0.002) | 0.07 | −0.003 (−0.016 to 0.011) | 1.78 | 0.0037 (−0.0005 to 0.008) | −7.91 | 0.0048 (−0.007 to 0.017) | −10.28 | |
| Higher | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Height of respondent | −0.0062 (−0.009 to 0.0032)*** | 13.23 | 0.277 (−0.730 to 1.284) | −593.33 | |||||
| Duration of breast feeding | Ever breast fed, not currently | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Still breast feeding | −0.0003 (−0.0067 to 0.006) | 0.20 | −0.112 (−0.185 to 0.039)** | 72.09 | −0.0016 (−0.0051 to 0.0020) | 3.33 | −0.10 (−0.250 to 0.051) | 213.12 | |
| Wealth index | Poorest | −0.0001 (−0.0017 to 0.0015) | 0.05 | 0.017 (−0.016 to 0.050) | −10.83 | −0.0001 (−0.0002 to 0.0001) | 0.19 | −0.031 (−0.075 to 0.013) | 66.06 |
| Poorer | 0.0001 (−0.0014 to 0.0016) | −0.05 | 0.0025 (−0.029 to 0.037) | −1.60 | −0.0001 (−0.0005 to 0.00033) | 0.14 | −0.039 (−0.0822 to 0.0034) | 84.26 | |
| Middle | −0.00003 (−0.0007 to 0.00061) | 0.02 | 0.014 (−0.016 to 0.044) | −8.95 | −0.0002 (−0.0005 to 0.0002) | 0.34 | −0.056 (−0.100 to 0.013)* | 119.33 | |
| Richer | −0.0001 (−0.0017 to 0.0016) | 0.05 | −0.001 (−0.029 to 0.028) | 0.41 | −0.00003 (−0.001 to, 0.0010) | 0.06 | −0.027 (−0.060 to 0.005) | 57.42 | |
| Richest | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Age of child in months | 0.0013 (−0.025 to 0.028) | −0.85 | −0.059 (−0.118 to 0.00002)* | 37.70 | 0.0041 (0.0031 to 0.0052)*** | −8.86 | 0.044 (−0.023 to 0.111) | −94.28 | |
| Sex of child (male as ref) | −0.0001 (−0.0018 to 0.0016) | 0.05 | −0.022 (−0.053 to 0.010) | 13.96 | −0.002 (−0.0036 to 0.0004)* | 4.28 | −0.005 (−0.038 to 0.027) | 9.75 | |
| Region | Tigray | 0.00014 (−0.0026 to 0.0028) | −0.09 | 0.013 (0.0003 to 0.026)* | −8.34 | 0.0006 (−0.0005 to 0.0020) | −1.25 | 0.003 (−0.0101 to 0.017) | −6.92 |
| Amhara | −0.0001 (−0.002 to 0.002) | 0.06 | −0.005 (−0.049 to 0.040) | 2.88 | −0.002 (−0.004 to 0.00042)* | 4.71 | 0.026 (−0.019 to 0.071) | −55.20 | |
| Oromiya | 0.0001 (−0.001, 0.001) | −0.03 | 0.0036 (−0.065, 0.073) | −2.32 | 0.0004 (−0.0001 to 0.001) | −0.76 | 0.110 (0.004 to 0.214)* | −233.14 | |
| SNNP | −0.0001 (−0.002 to 0.002) | 0.06 | −0.0018 (−0.046 to 0.043) | 1.12 | −0.0008 (−0.002 to 0.00022) | 1.80 | 0.051 (0.0014 to 0.101)* | −109.63 | |
| Addis Ababa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Dire Dawa | 0.00001 (−0.00003 to 0.00003) | −0.00 | 0.0002 (−0.0004 to 0.001) | −0.12 | −0.00001 (−0.00002 to 0.00001) | 0.01 | 0.0004 (−0.00033 to 0.001) | −0.86 | |
| Anaemia | Severe | – | – | – | 0.0007 (−0.0011 to 0.0024) | −1.38 | −0.0003 (−0.0025 to 0.002) | 0.68 | |
| Moderate | – | – | – | 0.0034 (0.0011 to 0.0057)** | −7.26 | 0.003 (−0.003 to 0.008) | −5.61 | ||
| Not anaemic | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Number of times ate solid, semisolid or soft food yesterday | None | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00000 | 0.00 |
| ≥1 | – | – | – | – | −0.0024 (−0.004 to 0.001) | 5.19 | −0.056 (−0.110 to 0.002)* | 119.97 | |
*pvalue<0.05; **pvalue<0.01; ***pvalue<0.001
EDHS, Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey.