Household migration and children’s diet in Nepal: an exploratory study

Acharya, Yubraj; Ghimire, Dirgha J.; Bhandari, Prem; Ghimire, Ramesh; Jones, Andrew D.

doi:10.1186/s13104-019-4430-x

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Table 3 OLS results from the regression of diet components on migration status

From: Household migration and children’s diet in Nepal: an exploratory study

	Lentils	Dairy	Flesh	Egg	Processed food	Times breastfed
Overall mean	0.35	0.33	0.37	0.13	0.37	8.6
Migrant household	0.017	0.073	0.406**	0.196**	0.115	− 0.558
Migrant household	(0.146)	(0.153)	(0.166)	(0.088)	(0.168)	(1.089)
Household income	− 0.083	0.002	0.038	0.021	− 0.042	− 0.06
Household income	0.062)	(0.062)	(0.069)	(0.058)	(0.062)	(0.460)
Amount of agricultural land	0.003	− 0.001	− 0.001	0.006	0.014	− 0.01
Amount of agricultural land	0.010)	(0.011)	(0.009)	(0.009)	(0.012)	(0.076)
Total number of poultry	− 0.001	0.006	0.003	0.011	0.004	− 0.028
Total number of poultry	(0.010)	(0.009)	(0.010)	(0.009)	(0.011)	(0.056)
Total number of livestock	− 0.007	0.028	− 0.070*	− 0.010	− 0.041	0.200
Total number of livestock	(0.043)	(0.043)	(0.036)	(0.028)	(0.037)	(0.341)
Household’s ethnic category	− 0.056	− 0.109**	0.073	− 0.020	− 0.020	0.077
Household’s ethnic category	(0.054)	(0.049)	(0.060)	(0.030)	(0.064)	(0.345)
Mother’s education	0.051**	0.029	− 0.007	− 0.001	− 0.006	0.006
Mother’s education	(0.024)	(0.023)	(0.023)	(0.012)	(0.025)	(0.166)
Household size	− 0.044	− 0.043	− 0.032	− 0.001	− 0.040	− 0.418
Household size	(0.039)	(0.037)	(0.039)	(0.027)	(0.037)	(0.311)
Age of the child	0.001	0.0000	0.009	− 0.001	0.033**	− 0.208**
Age of the child	(0.014)	(0.013)	(0.014)	(0.010)	(0.015)	(0.096)
Gender of the first respondent	0.093	0.185	− 0.012	− 0.186*	− 0.090	0.715
Gender of the first respondent	(0.163)	(0.140)	(0.143)	(0.106)	(0.160)	(0.800)
Constant	0.552	0.344	0.03	0.008	0.296	14.030***
Constant	(0.485)	(0.461)	(0.441)	(0.341)	(0.575)	(3.138)
N	51	51	51	51	51	50
R-squared	0.28	0.29	0.29	0.31	0.21	0.21
Adjusted R-squared	0.10	0.11	0.11	0.14	0.01	0.01

The table shows results from estimating Eq. (1) on the sample whose descriptive statistics are in Table 1. Each column represents a separate regression. Standard errors are in parenthesis. *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01. In the adjusted models, household income and ethnic category are included as continuous values. The coefficient on ‘migrant household’ multiplied by 100 gives the percentage point change in the probability that the specific food component is given to the child during the 24 h preceding the survey

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