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eported to be related to nutritional status by other investigators, did
not appear to have an effect on nutritional status in the current survey.
However, the question asked about income did not allo¡v for differences
in income level among households. The question asked was "do you
participate in income generating activities?".
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À "yes" or "no" answer
to this question does not appear to tell differences in income leve]s
among households. Similarly, education of the mother was not important
to lhe variation in nutritional status of children in the survey. The
question asked was "do you read and write?". À "yes" or "r¡o" answer to
this question may not show variations among households in nutritional
care given to children. In the current survey, face-to-face or personto-person
questionnaire inLerviewing was used. This type of interviewing
nray lead to gathering false data, especially on sensitive issues,
such as income, landholding, family size and education. Factors that
may have direct effects on nutritional status such as actual food
intakes (protein and energy intakes) of children were not estimated in
the current survey, and hence, possible variability in nutritional status
of the children surveyed was not determined. Data was collected by
non-professional high school students who received a minimun training
regarding collection of data. The sample size and number of sLudy variables
l+'ere considerably large. Thus, errors in recording questionnaire
data and also measurement and recording errors in anthropometric data
were possible.
The current survey has shown lhat age of the chi1d, prevalence of
diarrhea, whether or not a child received additional food, breastfeeding,
ownership of livestock and size of land cultviated for food