2.1: Anthropometric Indicators Measurement Guide - Linkages Project

Two-tailed Test - A statistical test to detect
a difference in means between two
populations regardless of the direction of
the difference.
Underweight - A condition measured by
weight-for-age; a condition that can also
act as a composite measure of stunting and
wasting.
Variable - A quantity that may vary from
object to object; a characteristic of a unit.
Wasting - A condition measured by
weight-for-height; a condition that results
from the loss of both body tissue and fat, in
a body; a condition that usually reflects
severely inadequate food intake happening
at present.
Weight-for-height - An index of current
nutritional status also referred to as
wasting.
Weighting - A data analysis process that
involves adjusting key variables used for
sample selection to their actual
proportions in the population.
Z-score - A statistical measure of the
distance, in units of standard deviations, of
a value from the mean; the standardized
value for an item based on the mean and
standard deviation of a data set; a
standardized value computed by
subtracting the mean from the data value x
and then dividing the results by the
standard deviation.
Waterlow classification system - A
nutritional classification system that uses
percentage of the median of height-for-age
and weight-for-height in combination to
identify children who are wasted, stunted
or both.
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Weighing trousers - A pair of little pants
that a child can step into and be suspended
by for weighing from a hanging scale.
Weight-for-age - An index of acute
malnutrition; a valuable index for use with
very young children or when length
measurements are difficult to do
accurately.
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