Assessing the Quality of Anthropometric Data: Background and IllustratedGuidelines for Survey Managers. Living Standards Measurement Study

摘要

As systematic and random errors in anthropometry can have a great impact on theprevalence estimates of malnutrition, strict quality control of the fieldwork of anthropometry in household surveys is very important. The paper defines and provides background information on sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value of indicators in general. The most frequently used