Asset ownership among households caring for orphans and vulnerable children in rural Zimbabwe: The influence of ownership on children's health and social vulnerabilities

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Table 1. Household characteristics and asset ownership.

			Asset index (terciles)
		Total (N=10,319)	Low (N=3480)	Mid (N=3484)	High (N = 3355)
	Range	M (SD)	M (SD)	M (SD)	M (SD)
Number of children**	1–13	2.74 (1.45)	2.87 (1.49)	2.72 (1.43)	2.62 (1.42)
Number of orphans**	0–8	0.87 (1.23)	0.88 (1.30)	0.96 (1.26)	0.76 (1.14)
Number of adults**	1–14	2.87 (1.51)	2.70 (1.42)	2.95 (1.53)	2.97 (1.55)
Number of adults with disabilities*	0–6	0.09 (0.32)	0.10 (0.32)	0.10 (0.34)	0.08 (0.31)
Number of adults with chronic illness**	0–5	0.39 (0.65)	0.35 (0.61)	0.41 (0.66)	0.40 (0.66)
Age of adults**	18–99	37.74 (11.23)	36.54 (10.80)	39.49 (12.06)	37.12 (10.48)
*p<0.05; **p<0.001.

Table 2. Child characteristics and asset ownership.

			Asset index (terciles)
		Total (N=28,519)	Low (N=10,034)	Mid (N=9670)	High (N=8815)
	Range	M (SD) or %	M (SD) or %	M (SD) or %	M (SD) or %
Child's gender
Male	–	49.9	50.0	49.6	50.1
Female	–	50.1	50.0	50.4	49.9
Age of children*	0–17	9.35 (4.73)	8.98 (4.72)	9.63 (4.70)	9.48 (4.76)
Health vulnerability (disability + chronic illness)	0–2	0.06 (0.24)	0.06 (0.24)	0.06 (0.24)	0.06 (0.25)
Social vulnerability (school attendance + birth registration)*	0–2	0.31 (0.52)	0.41 (0.57)	0.28 (0.50)	0.23 (0.47)
*p < 0.001.

Table 3. Predictors of children's health and social vulnerabilities.

	Model 1 (health vulnerability; ICC = 0.187; N=26,181; ages 0–17 years)		Model 2 (social vulnerability; ICC = 0.426; N=18,895; ages 6–17 years)
	B (SE)	p	B (SE)	p
Intercept	0.068 (0.009)	<0.0001	0.533 (0.026)	<0.0001
Assets	−0.005 (0.013)	0.674	−0.541 (0.033)	<0.0001
Number of children in Household (HH)	−0.003 (0.001)	0.013	0.009 (0.003)	0.0023
Orphan status
Maternal only	0.036 (0.008)	<0.0001	0.186 (0.017)	<0.0001
Paternal only	0.019 (0.004)	<0.0001	0.039 (0.009)	<0.0001
Double (maternal and paternal)	−0.007 (0.010)	0.489	−0.065 (0.021)	0.002
Number of adults in HH	−0.005 (0.001)	<0.0001	−0.013 (0.003)	<0.0001
Number of disabled adults in HH	0.010 (0.006)	0.081	0.042 (0.014)	0.003
Number of chronically ill adults in HH	0.048 (0.003)	<0.0001	0.011 (0.007)	0.117
Mean age of adults in HH	−0.001 (0.001)	0.004	−0.002 (0.000)	<0.0001
Child's age	0.000 (0.000)	0.664	−0.008 (0.001)	<0.0001
Child's gender (male vs. female)	0.006 (0.003)	0.041	−0.005 (0.006)	0.449