Determinants of children’s nutritional status in Malawi

Lemekezani Chilora and Jan Duchoslav

No 36, MaSSP working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Malnutrition reduction efforts can be targeted based on the characteristics that affect children’s nutritional status. Using data from a nationally representative survey, we model the determinants of young children’s nutritional status in Malawi as measured by height-for-age and weight-for-height z-scores. We identify several determinants of children’s nutritional status including their gender (boys are more malnourished than girls), their mother’s education, the food security and location of their household (rural children are more acutely but not chronically malnourished than urban children) and access to clean water.

Keywords: nutritional status; gender; child nutrition; urban areas; capacity development; water availability; length-weight relationships; malnutrition; nutrition; food security; rural areas; Malawi; Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Southern Africa; Eastern Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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