Mapping changes in district level prevalence of childhood stunting in India 1998-2016: An application of small area estimation techniques.

ABSTRACT: The four rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted during 1992-93, 1998-99, 2005-06 and 2015-16 is main source to track the health and development related indicators including nutritional status of children at national and state level in India. Except NFHS-4, first three rounds of NFHS were unable to provides district-level estimates of childhood stunting due to the insufficient sample sizes. The small area estimation (SAE) techniques offer a viable solution to overcome the problem of small sample size. Therefore, this study uses SAE techniques to derive district level prevalence of childhood stunting corresponding to NFHS-2 (1998-99). Study further estimated GIS maps, univariate Local indicator of spatial autocorrelation (LISA) and Moran's I to understand the trend in distr

SUBMITTER: Srivastava S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8093462 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature