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Table 3 Decomposition results of the Urban-Rural gap in malnutrition with different weighting schemes

From: Regional inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis

Yemen

 

D:

0

1

0.5

0.634

*

Unexplained (U){C+(1-D)CE}:

−4.172

−25.756

−14.964

−10.51

−3.206

Explained (V) {E + D*CE}:

61.469

83.053

72.261

67.807

60.503

% unexplained {U/R}:

−7.3

−45

−26.1

−18.3

−5.6

% explained (V/R):

107.3

145

126.1

118.3

105.6

Jordan

 

Unexplained (U){C+(1-D)CE}:

11.495

9.864

10.68

10.154

9.708

Explained (V) {E + D*CE}:

7.152

8.783

7.968

8.493

8.939

% unexplained {U/R}:

61.6

52.9

57.3

54.5

52.1

% explained (V/R):

38.4

47.1

42.7

45.5

47.9