Table 2.
Household food security and children and mother’s nutritional status
| Variables | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | 95 % CI | |
| Double burden pairs (SCOWT) | |||
| Yes | 199 | 7·8 | 6·7, 9·2 |
| No | 2151 | 92·2 | 90·8, 93·3 |
| Child nutritional status | |||
| Height/age | |||
| Stunting (<–2 HAZ) | 420 | 16 | 14·4, 17·8 |
| Risk of stunting (≥–2 to <–1 HAZ) | 682 | 29·6 | 27·0, 32·2 |
| Normal height (≥ –1 sd HAZ) | 1248 | 54·4 | 51·2, 57·6 |
| Weight/height | |||
| Wasting (<–2 WHZ) | 28 | 1·4 | 1·0, 2·1 |
| Risk of wasting (≥–2 a < –1 WHZ) | 182 | 7·0 | 6·0, 8·3 |
| Normal weight for height (≥–1 to ≤+1WHZ) | 1555 | 65·2 | 62·7, 67·6 |
| BMI/age | |||
| Risk of overweight (>+1 to ≤+2 BMIZ) | 450 | 20·7 | 18·9, 22·6 |
| Overweight (>+2 to ≤+3 BMIZ) | 107 | 4·7 | 3·9, 5·7 |
| Obesity (> +3 BMIZ) | 22 | 1·0 | 0·6, 1·6 |
| Maternal nutritional status | |||
| BMI and BMI/age* | |||
| Underweight (< 18·5 kg/m2; < –2 BMIZ*) | 76 | 3 | 2·5, 3·7 |
| Risk of underweight (≥–2 a < –1 BMIZ*) | 7 | 0·2 | 0·1, 0·4 |
| Normal BMI (≥18·5 a < 25 kg/m2; ≥–1 to ≤+1 BMIZ*) | 1058 | 47 | 45·1, 49·0 |
| Overweight (≥25 a < 30 kg/m2; >+1 to ≤+2 BMIZ*) | 788 | 32·4 | 29·9, 35·0 |
| Obesity (≥30 kg/m2; > +2 BMIZ*) | 421 | 17·4 | 15·5, 19·4 |
| Overweight + obesity | 1209 | 49·8 | 47·8, 51·7 |
HAZ, height-for-age Z-scores; WHZ, weight-for-height Z-scores; BMIZ, BMI-for-age Z-scores.
*
This index was used for adolescent mothers (13 to 17 years old).
Raw sample sizes are reported, and sample weights were used to compute estimates.