Table 2.
Frequency and percent of children aged 6-23 months in each type of dietary and anthropometric failures in India*
| Any anthropometric failure |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Presence |
Absence |
Total |
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|
Dietary failure |
Presence |
Both failures |
Dietary failure only |
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| 29 557 (44.0%) |
24 427 (36.3%) |
53 984 (80.3%) |
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|
Absence |
Anthropometric failure only |
Neither failure |
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| 6581 (9.8%) |
6682 (9.9%) |
13 263 (19.7%) |
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| Total |
36 138 (53.7%) |
31 109 (46.3%) |
67 247 |
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|
Discordance |
46.1% |
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