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Table 4 Description of the independent variables for nutritional status for nutritional status of children

From: Socio-biomedical predictors of child nutrition in India: an ecological analysis from a nationally representative Demographic and Health Survey, 2015–2016

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Variables

Description of variables used in analysis

1

HH with electricity

House with electricity connections

2

HH with an improved drinking-water source

Household using Piped water into dwelling/yard/plot, public tap/standpipe, tube well or borehole, protected dug well, protected spring, rainwater, community RO plant

3

HH using improved sanitation facility

Households using flush to piped sewer system, flush to septic tank, flush to pit latrine, ventilated improved pit (VIP)/biogas latrine, pit latrine with slab, twin pit/composting toilet, which are not shared with any other household

4

HH using clean fuel for cooking

Family/Household using clean fuel for cooking like Electricity, LPG/natural gas, biogas

5

HH using iodized salt

Consumption of Iodized salts in different houses

6

Women literacy

Literacy level in women in each Household

7

Women literacy (More than 10 Years)

Girls/women who attended school for 10 or more years

8

Total fertility rate (children per woman)

The number of children who would be born per woman (or per 1,000 women) if she/they were to pass through the childbearing years bearing children according to a current schedule of age-specific

9

ANC in first trimester

Mothers who had antenatal check-up in the first trimester (%)

10

Mothers with at least 4 ANC visit

Mothers who had at least 4 antenatal care visits (%)

11

Full ANC

Full antenatal care is at least four antenatal visits, at least one tetanus toxoid (TT) injection and took iron folic acid tablets or syrup for 100 or more days

12

Mothers PNC

Mothers who received postnatal care from any health personnel within 2 days of delivery

13

Institutional births

Institutional delivery means giving birth to a child in a medical institution under the overall supervision of trained and competent health personnel where there are more amenities available to handle the situation and save the life of the mother and child

14

Prevalence of diarrhea in the last 2 weeks

Prevalence of diarrhea (reported) in the last 2 weeks preceding the survey

15

Children breastfed in one hour of birth

Children under age 3 years breastfed within one hour of birth

16

Exclusive breastfeeding

Children under age 6 months exclusively breastfed

17

Small child receiving solid or semisolid

Children age 6-8 months receiving solid or semisolid food and breastmilk

18

Breastfed children age 6-23 months receiving an adequate diet

Based on the youngest child living with the mother. Breastfed children receiving 4 or more food groups and a minimum meal frequency, non-breastfed children fed with a minimum of 3 Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices (fed with other milk or milk products at least twice a day, a minimum meal frequency that is receiving solid or semisolid food at least twice a day for breastfed infants 6-8 months and at least three times a day for breastfed children 9-23 months, and solid or semisolid foods from at least four food groups not including the milk or milk products food group)

19

Women BMI below normal

BMI, formerly called the Quetelet index, is a measure for indicating nutritional status in adults. It is defined as a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of the person’s height in meters (kg/m2). Women whose body mass index (BMI) is below normal (BMI < 18.5 kg/m2)

20

GDP at constant prices

Gross domestic product (GDP) is an inflation-adjusted measure that reflects the value of all goods and services produced by an economy in a given year, expressed in base-year prices, and is often referred to as "constant-price," "inflation-corrected" GDP or "constant dollar GDP."

21

SC population

Scheduled Castes means such castes, races or parts of groups within such castes, races as are deemed under article 341 to be Scheduled Castes for the purposes of this Constitution

22

ST population

Scheduled Castes means such races or tribes or parts of or groups within such races or tribes as are deemed under article 342 to be Scheduled Tribes for the purposes of this Constitution