Modelling stunting in LiST: the effect of applying smoothing to linear growth data

Table 2 Data sources, numbers of children and numbers of length/height measurements contributing to the analysis

Data source	听	Number of children retained in the analysis	Number of records retained in the analysis
Pakistan MNP trial		2153	22,623
Nepal NNIPS-1		3723	24,830
Jivita (Bangladesh)		7873	47,238
Zvitambo (Zimbabwe)		3355	25,397
Cebu (Philippines)		2307	26,159
Multi-country database	Peru 1985^a	519	7850
	Peru 1989^a	192	2704
	Peru 1995^a	224	5031
	Brazil 1989^a	106	715
	Guinea-Bissau 1987^a	397	3110
	Guinea-Bissau 1996^a	684	7716
	Bangladesh 1993^a	253	5408
Total	听	21,786	178,786

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