Micro-Level Estimation of Child Malnutrition Indicators and Its Application in Cambodia

• Main Author: FUJII, Tomoki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Cambodia; Concentration curve; Decomposition; Health inequality; Malnutrition; Small-area estimation; Targeting; Asian Studies; Economics; Health Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/889; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1888/viewcontent/SSRN_id770946.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

One of the major limitations in addressing child malnutrition is lack of information that could be used to target resources. By combining demographic and health survey (DHS) and population census data, the author disaggregates the estimates of the prevalence of child malnutrition in Cambodia from cu...