Child health inequities in developing countries: differences across urban and rural areas

Table 2 Sample characteristics

	Survey year	Number of children^a	Percentage of urban children	Percentage of stunted children			Rural to urban odds ratio
				Overall	Urban	Rural
Central & Western Africa
1. Burkina Faso	1998/99	2 428	12.0	31.4	20.6	32.9	1.9
2. Cameroon	1998	1 763	26.5	30.2	22.9	32.8	1.6
3. Chad	1996/97	3 416	21.2	35.9	28.3	37.9	1.5
4. Côte d'Ivoire	1998/99	986	33.3	22.5	18.0	24.8	1.5
5. Ghana	2003	1 894	33.1	27.3	20.0	30.9	1.8
6. Nigeria	2003	2 713	32.3	36.5	29.2	40.0	1.6
7. Togo	1998	3 399	23.6	22.3	15.2	24.5	1.8
Eastern & Southern Africa
8. Kenya	2003	2 912	17.9	30.7	24.3	32.0	1.5
9. Madagascar	1997	2 879	19.5	49.0	45.3	50.0	1.2
10. Malawi	2000	5 936	13.2	44.6	29.7	46.9	2.1
11. Mozambique	1997	3 035	25.3	36.8	27.9	39.9	1.7
12. Tanzania	1999	1 588	18.4	38.7	20.1	42.9	3.0
13. Uganda	2000/01	3 282	9.9	36.2	27.3	37.2	1.6
14. Zambia	2001/02	3 475	30.2	44.9	38.4	47.7	1.5
15. Zimbabwe	1999	1 635	31.9	27.2	22.6	29.4	1.4
All 15 countries	NA^b	41 341	21.5	36.1	27.2	38.5	1.7

^aChildren aged 1–35 months. Children with missing or inconsistent anthropometric measures are excluded.
^bNot applicable

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