Table 1. Selection of sample size from the latest DHS of Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Myanmar.

	Country and DHS Year	Bangladesh2014	Nepal 2016	Pakistan 2012–13	Myanmar 2015–16
	Total Interviewed households	17300	11040	12943	12500
Excluded Households	Households without at least one child-mother pair	9997	5571	5955	8447
	Households with flagged cases of maternal BMI and pregnant women	54	1366	167	50
	Households out of plausible limits of child stunting	677	1411	999	418
	Households with women who had twin births and whose children living elsewhere	36	5	13	16
	Missing information regarding covariates	58	17	39	28
	Final Sample Size*	6478	2670	5770	3541

* Complete information of overall households with at least one child-mother pair.

Note: Exclusion criteria with numbers have been italicized.