|
|
When the "direct entry of stunting" option is selected in the interventions drawer, the stunting tab appears in the Coverage menu. Within this tab, users may modify stunting rates either through the "single indicator for stunting" option or the "detailed indicators for stunting" option.
The purpose of the single indicator is aggregate the bottom (worst) two stunting categories to create a single percentage of children who are stunted. (For example, if 2% of children are in the <-3 Z-score category and 5% of children are in the -3 to -2 z-score category, the single indicator will display "7% of children stunted.") It also aggregates across age groups, weighting by the number of months in each age range (i.e., <1 month is assumed to represent 1/60 of children, 1-5 months is assumed to represent 5/60 of children, etc.).
When the "single indicator" option is selected, the first (baseline) year of the single indicator will be grayed out and the rest of the years will be active. In the detailed display, the first year will be active (allowing users to edit baseline data here if necessary), but the following years will be grayed out. When the "detailed display" option is selected, the single indicator will remain visible but will be entirely grayed out, and the detailed display will be fully active.
Please note that in a healthy population (assumed to have a normal distribution of height for age), approximately 2.275% of the population will fall below -2 z-scores (i.e., more than 2 standard deviations below the median). As a result, we do not recommend setting the single indicator for stunting at a rate below 2.275%, as this is below what is considered normal for a healthy population.
Stunting distributions
•Definition: Distribution of the percent of children falling into one of four Z-score categories for height for age: <-3Z (severe stunting), -3 to -2Z (moderate stunting), -2 to -1Z (mild stunting), and >-1Z (not stunted). Stunting reflects chronic undernutrition.
|
