Nigeria - National Nutrition and Health Survey 2015, Third Round

Reference ID

NGA-NBS-NNHS-2015-v1.0

Year

2015

Country

Nigeria

Producer(s)

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) - Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN)

Sponsor(s)

Federal Government of Nigeria - FGN - funding
United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - funding
United States Agency for International Development - USAID - funding
Department for International Development - DFID - funding

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Dec 21, 2016

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Data Processing

Data Editing

All data were analysed with STATA version 14.0. ENA for SMART application was used to assess the quality of anthropometric measurements. As per SMART methods, SMART flags were used in the analysis of child anthropometric data and extreme values that resulted likely from incorrect measurements at state level were excluded. SMART flags exclude anthropometric indices with -3 to 3 for WHZ, -3 to 3 for HAZ, -3 to 3 for WAZ, from observed mean.

Other Processing

Computer data editing, table generation and analysis were carried out by the NBS staff at NBS headquarters, Abuja. Report writing was carried out by the Technical Committee of the Consultative Committee on
National Nutrition and Health Survey (NNHS) 2015