Fig. 2.
Summary of the pooled prevalence of wasting among children aged 6–59 months from 231 surveys in crisis-affected areas within Ethiopia, 2000–2013
CrI: credible intervals: SNNP: Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s.
a Across surveys.
Notes: Wasting was defined as weight-for-height z-scores below −2, standardized to WHO reference.30 Prevalence was the posterior median estimates of wasting, expressed as percentages of the number of children in each category, with their 95% CrI. Conflict events were occurrence of a conflict in a given location within six months of the survey’s starting date, irrespective of magnitude or impact. Data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Project26 and the Uppsala Conflict Data Program Armed Conflict Dataset27 were combined into a binary variable. Drought episodes in a given location were based on the three-month standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) from the Global Drought Monitor database:25 no drought (SPEI > 0), mild drought (−1 < SPEI ≤ 0), moderate drought (−1.5 < SPEI ≤ −1) and severe to extreme drought (SPEI ≤ −1.5).
