Feasibility of caregiver-administered anthropometric measurements of children under age 5: evidence from Zambia

Table 1 Comparison of sample characteristics

	Core sample (N = 76)		Interviewer only (N = 1430)		Caregiver only (N = 748)		Equal means test p-value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Caregiver age	25.947	5.944	25.582	15.000	26.926	7.383	0.264
Caregiver height	155.44	5.54	156.47	6.45	157.47	6.43	0.021
Caregiver no education	0.013	0.115	0.009	0.095	0.009	0.096	0.950
Caregiver lower primary	0.145	0.354	0.501	0.500	0.116	0.321	0.000
Caregiver upper primary	0.276	0.450	0.188	0.391	0.316	0.465	0.000
Caregiver junior secondary	0.224	0.419	0.169	0.374	0.303	0.460	0.000
Caregiver senior secondary	0.263	0.443	0.107	0.309	0.201	0.401	0.000
Caregiver higher	0.079	0.271	0.026	0.159	0.055	0.228	0.030
Caregiver married	0.803	0.401	0.754	0.431	0.746	0.436	0.707
Boys under age 5	0.776	0.723	0.833	0.788	0.865	0.746	0.407
Girls under age 5	0.855	0.761	0.803	0.735	0.850	0.747	0.177
Household size	6.421	3.534	6.206	2.711	6.584	3.011	0.014
Household has piped water	0.395	0.492	0.506	0.500	0.293	0.455	0.000
Household has flush toilet	0.092	0.291	0.120	0.325	0.102	0.302	0.449
Asset quintile	2.880	1.404	3.096	1.360	2.641	1.364	0.002
Child is female	0.500	0.503	0.508	0.500	0.501	0.500	0.773
Child age in month	6.042	1.897	5.161	1.819	6.308	2.123	0.000
Child birthweight	2942.162	592.821	2977.302	520.899	3022.042	523.448	0.091
Child is a twin	0.079	0.271	0.043	0.202	0.029	0.169	0.201
Month of assessment	6.000	0.000	5.313	0.605	6.556	0.497	0.000

Table shows means and standard deviations of key variables for the cohort sample (columns 1 and 2), as well as the sample of children measured only by interviewers (columns 3 and 4) and the sample of children measured only by caregivers (columns 5 and 6). The last column shows the p-value for an equal means test between the “interviewer only” and “caregiver only” samples. P-values < 0.05 shown in bold font

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