Analyzing the impact of an MDG-Fund program on childhood malnutrition in Timor-Leste

Table 2 Bivariate analyses of dichotomous variables

Height-for-Age Z scores (HAZ)	Diff. means	P	Lower mean Z-score if:
Child received supplementary food	0.385	< 0.0001	Yes
Measured in hungry season	− 0.273	< 0.0001	No
Sex	− 0.210	< 0.0001	Males
Bicycle or motor vehicle	− 0.240	< 0.0001	No
Mother’s smoking status	0.286	0.0014	Yes
Respondent currently working	− 2.055	0.0242	No
Access to news media	− 0.110	0.0246	No
Owns livestock, herds or farm animals	0.238	0.0267	Yes
Sanitation facilities	− 0.107	0.0271	Non-improved
Source of drinking water	0.109	0.0309	Improved
Owns a bank account	0.217	0.0317	Yes
Weight-for-age Z scores (WAZ)
Child received supplementary food	0.270	< 0.0001	Yes
Respondent currently working	0.199	< 0.0001	Yes
Type of place of residence	0.167	< 0.0001	Rural
Bicycle or motor vehicle	− 0.180	< 0.0001	No
Contraception use of mother	0.207	< 0.0001	Yes
Sex	− 0.087	0.0049	Males
Access to news media	− 0.071	0.023	No
Sanitation facilities	− 0.067	0.0285	Non-improved
Weight-for-height Z scores (WHZ)
Respondent currently working	− 1.101	< 0.0001	Yes
Measured in hungry season	0.185	< 0.0001	Yes
Type of place of residence	0.157	0.0006	Rural
Contraception use of mother	0.151	0.0004	Yes
Child received supplementary food	0.081	0.042	Yes
Cow or bull owned	− 0.090	0.0357	No

Results from independent samples t tests using data from 2009–2010, indicating differences between population means (Diff. means) for HAZ-, WAZ-, and WHZ-scores for dichotomous variables, sorted by p-value (lowest) and t-value (highest)

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