Impact of Individual, Household and Community Characteristics on Children’s Nutritional Indicators.
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2014-06
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This study analyzed WHO-standardized nutritional indicators of children from selected households within
communities that were sampled from all districts of Botswana. Data from the 2007 Botswana Family
Health Survey were fitted into multilevel models that seek to account for variability due to the macro- and
micro-units that have been hierarchically selected. This allowed for estimation of different levels of intraclass
correlations while simultaneously assessing the model-fit by accounting for the influence on the nutritional
indicators due to the fixed variables attributable to these macro- and micro-units. The results show
that variation in nutritional status of under-five children in Botswana is a function of characteristics of the
households and communities within which they live. As much as 17% of variation is due to differences in
the communities and households. Economic status of households holds an important key in predicting
the nutritional status of children.
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Community, Fixed effect, Intra-class correlation, Multilevel analysis, Multistage cluster sampling, Random effect, Botswana
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Mokgatlhe Lucky, Nnyepi Maria S. Impact of Individual, Household and Community Characteristics on Children’s Nutritional Indicators. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. 2014 Jun; 32(2): 276-286.