Global Prevalence of Child Malnutrition, World, 2006
The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live. Additionally, the project aims to assist policy makers, development agencies, and the poor themselves in designing interventions to reduce poverty.
Children are defined as underweight if their weight-for-age z-scores are more
than two standard deviations (2 SD) below the median of the NCHS/CDC/WHO
International Reference Population.
| Attributes | Range | Median | Mean | Standard Deviation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unique alphanumeric code | Text column (no statistics available) | |||
Unique alphanumeric code used for joining with the spatial data source | ||||
| Unique Numeric Key | 1 - 821 | 404.00 | 406.25 | 236.37 |
Unique numeric key, based on order of loading into database. | ||||
| Percentage of children underweight | -999.00 - 56.80 | 14.00 | -141.24 | 373.37 |
Percentage of children underweight (more than two standard deviations below the mean weight-for-age score of the NCHS/CDC/WHO international reference population) | ||||
| Region Name | Text column (no statistics available) | |||
Name for the spatial unit used in the original data source | ||||
| Percent of population under age 5 | -999.00 - 21.10 | 13.80 | -56.23 | 256.52 |
% of population under age 5 (national data) | ||||
| Three letter code | Text column (no statistics available) | |||
ISO 3-letter Country Code, fifth Edition, tenth update | ||||
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