Table 1.

Category Anthropometric Failure in under five year using Composite Index of Anthropometric (CIAF)

Group	CIAF Categories	Description of the level	Wasting	Stunting	Underweight
A	No failure	Normal WAZ, HAZ and WHZ	No	No	No
B	Wasting only	WAZ < − 2SD, but normal HAZ and WHZ	Yes	No	No
C	Wasting and underweight	WAZ and WHZ < − 2 SD, but HAZ normal	Yes	No	Yes
D	Wasting, underweight and stunting	WAZ, WHZ and HAZ < − 2SD	Yes	Yes	Yes
E	Stunting and undwerwight	HAZ and WHZ < − 2SD, but WAZ normal	No	Yes	Yes
F	Stunting only	HAZ < −2SD, but normal WAZ and WHZ	No	Yes	No
Y	Underweight only	WHZ < −2SD, but normal HAZ and WA	No	No	Yes

Source: The Concept of Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) by Kuiti and Bose: Revisited and Revised (2018)