Exploration of Dietary Diversity Heterogeneity across Rural-Urban Areas in Pakistan: Based on HIES 2018-19

This study investigates the gap in dietary diversity and thereby quantifies this into its main drivers between rural urban households. The statistical analysis based on data from Household Integrated Expenditures Survey 2018-19 for Pakistan shows that there is a significant mean difference household across rural-urban regions. To quantify regions, multivariate nonlinear Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method used we have decomposed explained effect unexplained effect. result of explains regions specifically due to households’ characteristics like expenditures, head educational attainment age etc. ranges 89.66% 75.32% scores food variety scores, respectively. expenditures income quintiles are major besides other socio-demographic such as size, marital status, attainment, security status households coefficient (unexplained effect) unobservable factors role region-specific institutions found only case scores.