Table 5 Nutritional status of children 0–59 months classified according to their anthropometric indices from Africa RISING project in northern Ghana in 2012 (N = 499)
Characteristics | Nutritional status | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Severely malnourished | Moderately malnourished | Marginally malnourished | All forms of malnutrition | Well nourished | |
Sex | |||||
Male | 9 (10.7) | 31 (36.9) | 44 (52.4) | 84 (32.4) | 175 (67.6) |
Female | 6 (7.0) | 32 (37.2) | 48 (55.8) | 86 (35.8) | 154 (64.2) |
Age (months) | |||||
0–5 | 2 (13.3) | 6 (40.0) | 7 (46.7) | 15 (28.3) | 38 (71.7) |
6–11 | 3 (16.7) | 6 (33.3) | 9 (50) | 18 (32.7) | 37 (67.3) |
12–23 | 4 (15.4) | 13 (50) | 9 (34.6) | 26 (34.2) | 50 (65.8) |
24–35 | 3 (6.8) | 14 (31.8) | 27 (61.4) | 44 (38.6) | 70 (61.4) |
36–47 | 2 (6.1) | 11 (33.3) | 20 (60.6) | 33 (33.7) | 65 (66.3) |
48–59 | 1 (2.9) | 13 (38.2) | 20 (58.8) | 34 (33.0) | 69 (67.0) |
Region | |||||
Northern | 14 (13.9) | 35 (34.7) | 52 (51.5) | 101 (49.5) | 103 (50.5) |
Upper West | 0 (0.0) | 11 (32.4) | 23 (67.6) | 34 (22.8) | 115 (77.2) |
Upper East | 1 (2.9) | 17 (48.6) | 17 (48.6) | 35 (24.0) | 111 (76.0) |
Total | 15 (8.8) | 63 (37.1) | 92 (54.1) | 170 (34.1) | 329 (65.9) |