Table 4.

The life table analysis of severely acutely malnourished children treated at outpatient therapeutic care program in Southern Ethiopia from January 2011 to January 2013

Nutritional status	Time interval in days	Number of entering intervals	Number of withdrawals during intervals	Number of subjects exposed to risk	Number of subjects recovered	Proportion not recovering	Cumulative proportion not recovering
Kwashiorkor	0–7	165	1	164.5	0	1.00	1.00
	7–14	164	1	163.5	0	1.00	1.00
	14–21	163	1	162.5	2	0.99	0.99
	21–28	160	2	159	15	0.91	0.89
	28–35	143	2	142	30	0.79	0.71
	35–42	111	2	110	45	0.59	0.42
	42–49	64	3	62.5	28	0.55	0.23
	49–56	33	5	30.5	24	0.21	0.05
	56–63	4	1	3.5	3	0.14	0.01
Marasmus	0–7	183	0	183	0	1.00	1.00
	7–14	183	3	181.5	0	1.00	1.00
	14–21	180	2	179	2	0.99	0.99
	21–28	176	0	176	5	0.97	0.96
	28–35	171	0	171	12	0.93	0.89
	35–42	159	0	159	19	0.88	0.79
	42–49	140	4	138	41	0.70	0.55
	49–56	95	44	73	46	0.37	0.20
	56–63	5	3	3.5	2	0.43	0.09