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Table 2 Concentration Index Values for Stunting across States and Urban-Rural Locations, India, NFHS-3

From: Nutritional status of children in India: household socio-economic condition as the contextual determinant

States/Country

Concentration Index (Stunting)

 

Rural

Urban

Total

Haryana

-0.118**

-0.257**

-0.151**

Punjab

-0.211**

-0.259**

-0.212**

Rajasthan

-0.069**

-0.182**

-0.106**

Madhya Pradesh

-0.032

-0.133**

-0.063**

Uttar Pradesh

-0.071**

-0.153**

-0.083**

Bihar

-0.082**

-0.131**

-0.094**

Orissa

-0.169**

-0.267**

-0.183**

West Bengal

-0.112**

-0.3**

-0.168**

Assam

-0.101**

-0.253**

-0.116**

Gujarat

-0.087**

-0.132**

-0.115**

Maharashtra

-0.12**

-0.167**

-0.146**

Andhra Pradesh

-0.104**

-0.134**

-0.14**

Karnataka

-0.076**

-0.185**

-0.127**

Kerala

-0.204**

-0.061

-0.165**

Tamil Nadu

-0.075

-0.196**

-0.131**

All 15 states

-0.092**

-0.177**

-0.121**

ALL INDIA

-0.098**

-0.169**

-0.126**

  1. Source: Authors' Calculation from NFHS 3 unit data
  2. Significant at ***p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, and * p < 0.10.