Nutritional Status of Women and Children: A 2014 update on nutritional status by sociodemographic and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) indicators collected in Demographic and Health Surveys. December 2014.
This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by Monica T. Kothari (PATH), Noureddine Abderrahim (ICF International), Amanda Coile(PATH), and Yuan Cheng (ICF International).
To provide current context, this report looks at stunting in the framework of common WASH indicators. This report provides a descriptive analysis of the status of women and children in the context of nutrition, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, anemia, dietary diversity, and micronutrient supplementation. The report also provides information on the nutritional status of women and children, with data disaggregated by selected WASH indicators.
Four sections summarize information from surveys that collected DHS data between 2005 and 2013. The first section reviews data on the nutritional status of women and children. Section 2 presents information on feeding practices of women, infants, and young children. Data on anemia, micronutrient supplementation, and deworming are given in section 3, and nutritional status and diarrhea are covered in section 4. The data in sections 1, 3, and 4 are disaggregated by selected sociodemographic
characteristics, as well as by WASH indicators.
This report provides nationally representative estimates of nutrition indicators from 37 low- and middle-income countries (see Figure 2). Estimates for all indicators in this report have been re-run to facilitate comparison across countries. Tables 1.1 through 1.5 and table 3.1 present data on all of the most recent USAID priority and nonpriority countries; other tables present data on only the Maternal and Child Health (MCH), WASH, and Feed the Future (FtF) USAID priority countries.
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