Mid-upper-arm circumference based case-detection, admission, and discharging of under five children in a large-scale community-based management of acute malnutrition program in Nigeria

Table 3 Characteristics of the sample of admissions from the Nigeria outpatient therapeutic program (2010 to 2013)

Attribute	Details	Number	Percentage
Sample size	Number of children	102,245	100.00%
Sex	Males	49,240	48.2%
	Females	47,137	46.1%
	Missing	5868	5.7%
Age (year-centered age-group) at admission (months)^a	[6,17] centred at 1 year	60,750	59.4%
	(17,29] centred at 2 years	32,170	31.5%
	(29,41] centred at 3 years	2520	2.4%
	(41,53] centred at 4 years	306	0.3%
	(53,59] centred at 5 years	56	0.1%
Age at admission (months)	Median age at admission	13
Time to travel (hours)^a	[0,0.5]	18,968	18.5%
	(0.5,1]	20,870	20.4%
	(1,2]	14,503	14.2%
	(2,3]	6348	6.2%
	(3,4]	1874	1.8%
	(4,5]	703	0.7%
	(5,6]	314	0.3%
	(6,7]	155	0.1%
	Missing	38,510	37.7%

^aIntervals (ranges) are expressed in ISO 31–11 form. The form (a,b] expresses a < x ≤ b
The form [a,b] expresses a ≤ x ≤ b

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