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important (in the current survey),
Ht/Age and Wt/Age.
to the observed variations in Wt/Ht,
The impact of whether or not a child receives additional food and
prevalence of diarrhea in chitdren were highly significant (p.0.0001) on
all the three anthropometric indicators (table 11, 12, and '13). The
effects of livestock ownership and age of the child on Ht/Àge and wt/Àge
also were highly significant (p.0.0001). Breast-feeding and total number
of live births also had highly significant effects (p.0.0001) on
wt/age and Ht/Age, respectively. The effects of age of the child, diarrheal
prevalence, livestock ownership, breast-feeding and vaccination on
the respective anthropometric indicators were negative.
The R-Square value which indicates the percentage of explainable
variation in the wt/Ht parameLer was only 5% (Table 1 1 ). The proportion
of explainable variation in the Ht/Àge r+as about 24% flable 12) and that
in lvt/Àge was only 17% (Table 13).
The independent effects of agricuttural, child feeding habits and
health variables on wt/Ht, Ht/Àge and Wt/Age are given in Tables 14, 1b,
and 16, respectively. The proportions of variability in wt/¡tt, Ht/Age
and wt/Àge, due to agricultural variabres, ¡vere about j%, 3% and 3%,
respectively (rabte l¿). The proportions of variations in ttt/Ht, ut/Age
and Wt/Age due to child feeding habit variables were abouL 2%, 9% and
7%, respectively (tabte lS) and variations due to health variables were
about 3%, 2% and 3%, respectivery (taute l6). child feeding practices
were more important to the variations in Ht/Age and Wt/Age than agricultural
or health variables. Health variables were more important to the
variation in vlt/Ht, indicator of acute malnutrition.