Determinants of Child Stunting, Wasting, and Underweight: Evidence from 2017 to 2018 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey

Table 2

Identification of multicollinearity for probable predictors of malnutrition.

Variables	VIF
Economic status	2.01
Education of mother	1.80
Education of father	1.37
Birth order number	1.33
Fresh milk consumption	1.52
Breastfed	1.28
Mother’s age	1.49
Type of residence	1.25
Toilet facility	1.39
Iron tablets’ consumption during pregnancy	1.31
Age of child (months)	1.11
Maternal BMI	1.51
Geographical area	1.51
Postnatal checkup	1.23
Breastfeeding initiation	1.20
Consumed formula milk	1.19
Child birth size	1.18
Mother’s employment	1.17
Cigarette smoking	1.17
Child sex	1.14
Mean VIF	1.29