An observation on the bias in clinic-based estimates of malnutrition rates

Margaret E. Grosh, Kristin Fox and Maria Jackson

No 649, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: Clinic-based data on malnutrition are the most readily available for following malnutrition levels and trends in most countries, but there is a bias inherent in clinic-based estimates of malnutrition rates. The authors compare annual clinic-based malnutrition data and those from four household surveys in Jamaica. The clinic data give lower estimates of malnutrition than the survey data in all four cases - significantly so in three. The size of the bias was variable over time, so the clinic data were not a good indicator of either levels of trends in nutrition status.

Keywords: Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Early Child and Children's Health; Early Childhood Development; Health Systems Development&Reform; Regional Rural Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991-04-30
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