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Prevalence of stunting, wasting and underweight in BDHS 2014 [message #10772] Sat, 10 September 2016 12:38 Go to previous message
brammaputram@yahoo.fr is currently offline  brammaputram@yahoo.fr
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Registered: November 2015
Location: Bangladesh
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Hi,
I am working with BDHS 2014 BDPR datasets to measure the prevalence of stunting, wasting and underweight by using percentile scores of Height/Age, Weight/Height and Weight/Age. My findings are: 3%, 7%, 70% respectively, which are very dissimilar compared with those from BDHS 2014 final report, (which used z scores): 36.1%, 14.3%, 32.6%.

So far as I am concerned, percentiles lower than fifth should correspond to <2SD of the WHO Child Growth Standards median.

I tried calculating stunting by z-scores as well (HC3-HC6/HC5), but the result is still very different (13.4%).
Sorry if I am being dull here methodologically, but would really appreciate if you could provide some insight to it.

Thanks in advance!
 
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