Table 1.
Stunting prevalence for conservative, aggressive and moderate scenarios among children under 5 years old from three rounds of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) in Egypt (2005, 2008 and 2014)
| Panel A. DHS data | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 2008 | 2014 | |||||||
| Mean |
sd
|
Stunted (%) | Mean |
sd
|
Stunted (%) | Mean |
sd
|
Stunted (%) | |
| 6–23 months | −1·04 | 2·22 | 31·0 | −0·91 | 2·24 | 30·2 | −0·28 | 2·32 | 20·4 |
| 24–59 months | −1·09 | 1·71 | 25·6 | −1·25 | 1·86 | 32·0 | −0·46 | 2·02 | 19·8 |
, observed sd of Z-scores; 
, hypothesized measurement error; 
, modelled sd of Z-scores after removing measurement error.
*
95 % CI based on 1000 simulations.