Study of the determinants of chronic malnutrition in northern Nigeria: Quantitative evidence from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys

Mulubrhan Amare, Todd Benson, Olusegun Fadare and Motunrayo Oyeyemi

No 45, NSSP working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: To better understand the drivers of chronic child undernutrition in northern Nigeria and how those drivers differ from other areas of the country, this paper presents the results of an econometric analysis of data from the 2008 and 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys. A standard child-level regression based approach is used for the first part of the analysis using as the dependent variable whether the child aged 6 to 23 months is stunted (height-for-age z-score (HAZ)

Keywords: child nutrition; undernutrition; nutrition policies; malnutrition; econometrics; health surveys; child stunting; Nigeria; Africa; Western Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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