Birth registration and child undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In many countries of the world millions of people are not registered at birth. However, in order to assess children's nutritional status it is necessary to have an exact knowledge of their age. In the present paper we discuss the effects of insufficient or imprecise age data on estimates of undernutrition prevalence.

Design

Birth registration rates and levels of stunting, underweight and wasting were retrieved from Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and Demographic and Health Surveys of thirty-seven sub-Saharan African countries, considering the subdivision in wealth quintiles. The composition of the cross-sectional sample used for nutritional evaluation was analysed using a permutation test. Logistic regression was applied to analyse the relationship between birth

SUBMITTER: Comandini O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10271021 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature