RFI: Indicators for African countries
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I am working for the Africa Region of the World Bank and I am trying to
update the indicators related to stunting, wasting, underweight, Vita-
min A/iodine/iron deficiencies, Acute Respiratory Infections and diar-
rhea for children <5 years of age for each African country. Besides the
Iodine deficiency database of Prof. Dunn in Virginia and the book pub-
lished in 1997 by the WHO Global Database on Child Growth (but the pub-
lication shows data before 1997 and I do not have the update), I did
not find any other useful database with a reliable and clear definition
of these indicators and the methodology used.
Please let me know if you have some data on the above indicators or if
you know good data sources.
Because I have to update these indicators for each African country by
the end of April, I would appreciate if you could reply at your earli-
est convenience if you have any suggestion.
Thanks,
Venanzio Vella
mailto:vvella@worldbank.org
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