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Stunting trajectories

Explore the stunting trajectories of our Younger Cohort individuals (born in 2001-02):

Stunting trajectories over childhood
Please note that interactive data visualizations are only available for desktop

The bars show the percentage of children at each age who are classified as being stunted or not stunted based on their height, those who change from being stunted to not being stunted (i.e. recovered) and from being not stunted to stunted (i.e. faltered) between consequent survey rounds. Note that this visualization filters to show one country at a time, and can be explored by child sex, household wealth and location in 2002. For information on how we define these variables, please find our data dictionary here.

For our latest research on stunting, see younglives.org.uk/content/stunting-and-catch-growth #YLNutrition

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stunting trajectories

Children are referred to as being stunted when their height is more than two standard deviations below the median of the reference WHO population of children of the same age and gender. Children who were stunted in one survey round and then become not stunted have recovered from being stunted, whereas children who were not stunted in an initial survey round and become stunted subsequently have faltered to become stunted. Those who were stunted at both measurements have remained stunted and those who were not stunted at both survey rounds have remained not stunted.

household wealth

The wealth index is a composite index measuring households' access to services such as water and sanitation, their ownership of consumer durables such as refrigerators, and the quality of floor, roof, and wall materials in their dwelling. Households in each cohort of the Young Lives survey were categorised into terciles based on their wealth index in 2002, with the households with lowest wealth belonging to the bottom tercile, and those with the highest wealth belonging to the top tercile.

location

The sentinel sites and communities that households were sampled from in 2002 were defined as urban or rural, based on administrative definitions in each country.

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