Household water treatment and the nutritional status of primary-aged children in India: findings from the India human development survey

Table 1 Summary statistics of dependent and independent variables (N = 20,315)

Variables	Mean	Standard Deviation
Nutritional status (n_i)	3.124	0.831
Having diarrhea in the last 30 days (Diarrhea_i) (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.023	0.150
Household water treatment (HWT_i) (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.178	0.382
Number of children in the household	2.838	1.498
Number of meals per day in the household	2.754	0.576
Hours of watching TV per day on an average day	2.079	1.309
Gender (=1 if male; =0 if female)	0.518	0.500
Household income is below poverty line (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.226	0.419
Highest education of adults in the household: less than elementary school (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.149	0.356
Highest education of adults in the household: elementary school (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.536	0.499
Highest education of adults in the household: middle school (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.149	0.356
Caste category: Brahmin (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.050	0.218
Caste category: Forward/General (except Brahmin) (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.209	0.407
Caste category: Other Backward Castes (OBC) (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.430	0.495
Caste category: Scheduled Castes (SC) (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.233	0.423
Caste category: Scheduled Tribes (ST) (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.070	0.254
Cooking in the household is generally done outdoors (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.201	0.401
Having a toilet at home (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.519	0.500
Washing hands after defecating (=1 if yes; =0 otherwise)	0.972	0.166

Note: the poverty line, which varies by state and urban/rural residence, is based on calculations of income needed to support minimal calorie consumption in 1970s and was adjusted by price indices since then

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