The use of nutrition administrative data to generate population-level child malnutrition estimates: technical note

Overview

The purpose of this technical note is to provide evidence-based recommendations in the collection, quality assessment and analysis of individual-level anthropometric data for pre-school aged children using administrative health information systems to derive national and subnational malnutrition estimates for a given period (normally a calendar year). This is a first but important step towards the establishment of a standard analytical framework. The audience for this document includes National Statistics Offices or government entities responsible for nutrition monitoring and SDG reporting, and academia involved in research.