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Re-Estimating Malnourishment and Inequality among Children in North-east India
This article re-estimates the prevalence of child malnutrition among the under-five age group in eight north-east states using the composite index of anthropometric failure method as proposed by P Svedberg, using the National Family Health Survey-3 data. These data show that in the north-east only about 35% of children under-five are underweight. However, results using the CIAF method indicate a substantially higher malnutrition level of 56%, and evidence of wide interstate differentials by socio-economic and demographic indicators.
The earlier version of the paper was presented at the Tenth National Conference of the Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health (21-23 November 2012), at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The authors thank M Guruswamy and Abhishek Singh at IIPS, Mumbai, for their valuable comments on the draft. However, the authors are solely responsible for the interpretations or any error in the analysis.
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