The contribution of dietary and non-dietary factors to socioeconomic inequality in childhood anemia in Ethiopia: a regression-based decomposition analysis

Table 2 Contribution of dietary and non-dietary factors to anemia prevalence between the richest and the poorest

Variable	Difference due to characteristics (E)			Difference due to coefficients (C)
Variable	Coefficient	%^a	P-value	Coefficient	%	P-value
Dietary factors
Early initiation of breastfeeding	0.002	0.99	0.516	0.212	104.96	0.046
Exclusive breastfeeding	− 0.024	− 11.88	0.009	0.016	7.92	0.009
Current breastfeeding	− 0.011	− 5.50	0.003	− 0.104	− 51.48	0.003
Dietary diversity	0.033	15.84	0.027	− 0.003	− 1.49	0.893
Meal frequency	0.014	6.98	0.041	0.04	19.80	0.303
Non-dietary factors
Water source	0.004	1.98	0.647	0.088	43.56	0.019
Toilet facility	0.005	2.48	0.858	0.003	1.49	0.822
Birth size	0.005	2.48	0.039	− 0.073	− 36.14	0.021
Mother education	0.057	27.72	0.007	0.012	5.94	0.725
Residence place	0.034	16.83	0.016	− 0.148	− 73.27	0.017
Constant				0.04	19.80	< 0.001
Total	0.119	58.91	< 0.001	0.083	41.09	0.003

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