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POVERTY STATUS OF HOUSEHOLDS AND CHILD MALNUTRITION IN RURAL POPULATION OF NIGERIA
Abstract: Child malnutrition has been a cause for concern in Sub-Saharan Africa, so does poverty. Establishing the link between the two phenomena is however pertinent in achieving the key Sustainable Development Goals. The study examined the effects of household poverty on child nutrition in Rural Nigeria. National Demographic Health Survey (NDHS 2013) data sampled by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) were used. Analytical tools adopted were: descriptive statistics, fuzzy set, body mass index (BMI) and multinomial logistic regression models. The multidimensional poverty index threshold was set at 30% with 81.85% of the entire rural households being poor. Also, 91% of the population of children, 5years and below was underweight. The regression analysis revealed that households‟ poverty had adverse effect on child nutrition. Poverty alleviation programs targeting the rural households need to be intensified in order to reduce household poverty, which would lead to the improvement of the nutrition of children.
Keywords: Multidimensional poverty, Malnutrition, Body mass Index, Fuzzy set, Multinomial logit, Rural Nigeria.