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type of treatment for sick family members; 7. Ecozone: highrand, midland,
and lowland; 8. crop zone: food crops, cash crops, and food and
cash crops;9. À9e and sex of children. Significant variables are presented
in Tables 1'1 , 12, and 13.
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4"2 pESCRrpTi0N 0F ANTHRoPoMETRIC AND ÀSSOCIÀTED VARIABLES
The frequency distribution of agersex,socio-economicrand health variables
are given in Tab1es 1 to 9. The number of children between the
ages of 0-12 months was 1106 (39%) and that of children between the ages
of 13-36 months was 1300 (45.9%) out of a toLal of 2833 children surveyed.
Nutritional marasmus is commonly seen in the first'12 months of
life and kwashiorkor occurs mainly in the age group of 12-36 months
(Jetliffe, 1966). Thus, the proportion of children vulnerable to either
nutritional maräsmus or kwashiorkor was high, g4.g% (table 1). The
number of children who came from households having more than 3 children
were 112 (4%), out of a lota1 of 283'1 and the mean household size was
5.6 (raute z). The weight-for-Height, Height-for-À9e and Þteight-for-Àge
distribution of the children in rural Sidama Awraja is given in Tables
8' 9, and 10. Children were cfassified as miId, moderate and severe
cases of malnutrition according to Waterlow's (1976) classification for
wt/Ht and Ht/Àge and based on Jelliffe's ('1 965) classification for
wt/Age. The wt/Ht, Ht/Age, and wt/Àge percentages of the standard were
calculated for 2'833 children. The proporLion of children who were
considered malnourished in the Î.tt/Àge parameter (75.8%) was greater than
that indicated by either lrt/Hl or Ht/Age (40,5% and 63.8% respectively).
The mean l.tt/Age' wt/Ht and Ht/Age percentages of children studied were
80.5t'14, 92.4!10 and 92,7!6, respectively.