Table 5

A multivariate decomposition analysis of different features in the 2011–2016 EDHS

Characteristics		2011–2019 EDHS
		Endowments		Coefficients
		Coef with 95% CI	Per cent	Coef with 95% CI	Per cent
Residence (urban as ref) Rural		−0.005 (−0.013 to 0.003)	7.07	0.026 (−0.080 to 0.132)	−37.18
Highest educational level	No education	−0.022 (−0.039 to 0.0041)*	31.00	−0.002 (−0.160 to 0.160)	2.35
	Primary	0.010 (0.001 to 0.020)*	−13.97	−0.0092 (−0.070 to 0.052)	13.32
	Secondary	−0.001 (−0.007 to 0.005)	1.31	−0.002 (−0.006 to 0.003)	2.94
	Higher
Duration of breast feeding	Ever breast fed, not currently	1	1	1	1
	Never breast fed	0.0001 (−0.003 to 0.003)	−0.07	0.0012 (−0.0013 to 0.004)	−1.77
	Still breast feeding	−0.001 (−0.002 to 0.001)	0.74	−0.040 (−0.079 to 0.001)*	57.20
Water source (improved as ref) unimproved		0.006 (0.00001 to 0.012)*	−8.57	−0.024 (−0.055 to 0.007)	34.64
Wealth index	Poorest	0.001 (0.00033 to 0.00122)**	−1.12	0.001 (−0.030 to 0.032)	−1.41
	Poorer	−0.0001 (−0.0002 to 0.00001)*	0.13	−0.008 (−0.040 to 0.022)	12.16
	Middle	−0.0022 (−0.004 to 0.001)*	3.11	−0.001 (−0.030 to 0.027)	1.05
	Richer	−0.0016 (−0.0031 to 0.00001)*	2.28	−0.007 (−0.033 to 0.020)	9.51
	Richest	1	1
Age of child in months		−0.001 (−0.0044 to 0.0015)***	4.23	−0.093 (−0.170 to 0.020)*	134.53
Sex of child (male as ref)		−0.00022 (−0.0004 to 0.0001)**	0.32	−0.013 (−0.040 to 0.012)	18.97
Region	Tigray	0.0005 (0.0003 to 0.0010)***	−0.76	0.010 (0.00011 to 0.021)*	−15.01
	Affar	0.0006 (0.0001 to 0.001)*	−0.79	0.0002 (−0.0013 to 0.002)	−0.34
	Amhara	−0.002 (−0.0033 to 0.00014)*	2.50	0.012 (−0.022 to 0.045)	−17.17
	Oromiya	−0.0021 (−0.0052 to 0.001)	3.02	0.023 (−0.044 to 0.090)	−33.24
	Somali	−0.0004 (−0.005, 0.004)	0.62	0.001 (−0.0034 to 0.005)	−1.26
	Benishangul-Gumuz	0.00001 (−0.00001 to 0.00003)	−0.02	0.0006 (−0.0012 to 0.0025)	−0.90
	SNNP	−0.0007 (−0.0016 to 0.00033)	0.94	0.013 (−0.021 to 0.047)	−18.83
	Gambela	−0.0001 (−0.0002 to 0.00004)	0.10	0.0002 (−0.0004 to 0.001)	−0.24
	Harari	0.0001 (0.00002 to 0.00014)**	−0.12	0.0004 (0.0001 to 0.001)*	−0.61
	Addis Ababa	1	1	1	1
	Dire Dawa	0.0001 (−0.0001 to 0.00023)	−0.10	0.0001 (−0.0004 to 0.001)	−0.12
Place of delivery	Home	1	1	1	1
	Health institution	0.007 (−0.0062 to 0.020)	−10.14	0.004 (−0.005 to 0.012)	−5.35
	Others	−0.002 (−0.003 to 0.0004)*	2.35	−0.002 (−0.003 to 0.0004)*	2.29
Dietary diversity	No	1	1	1	0.00
Dietary diversity	Yes	0.0004 (−0.0013 to 0.0022)	−0.61	−0.026 (−0.050 to 0.003)*	36.92

*pvalue<0.05; **pvalue<0.01; ***pvalue<0.001
EDHS, Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey.