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Micro-level Estimation of Child Undernutrition Indicators in Cambodia Tomoki FUJII (tfujii@smu.edu.sg), Singapore Management Universitytfujii@smu.edu.sg Presented at the First Asian ISI Satellite Meeting on Small Area Estimation (SAE) Bangkok, Thailand. September 2, 2013 Slide 2 Child Undernutrition: Why matter? 3.7 million deaths of young children related to malnutrition worldwide (WHO, 2002). In Cambodia, almost half of the children are malnourished in Year 2000. Child malnutrition associated with higher mortality, morbidity and delayed physical and mental development. Slide 3 Policy Issues Limited resources to address child undernutrition. Targeting helpful for efficient use of resources. Necessary information often not available. In Cambodia, the DHS allows us to estimate prevalence of undernutrition only at the level of 17 strata. Slide 4 Objective Develop methodology to estimate commune-level prevalence of child undernutrition. Useful for formulating targeting policies Can be presented as a map. Disaggregate estimates from 17 strata to about 1,600 communes. Slide 5 Outline Measurement of undernutrition Methodology Overview Estimation Simulation Data Results Conclusion Slide 6 Measurement of Undernutrition (1) Individual nutrition status is measured by how many SDs from the median of reference healthy population. (Z-score). Height-for-age: Z