Socio-economic inequality in anthropometric failure among children aged under 5 years in India: evidence from the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey 2016–18

Table 3 Classification of anthropometric failure as per CIAF and distribution of participants as per CIAF categories^a

Categories of Undernutrition		Wasting	Stunting	Underweight	N = 30,500	(%)
A	No failure	No	No	No	18,434	51.8
B	Wasting (Low weight-for-height WTHT) only	Yes	No	No	1392	4.6
C	Wasting and Underweight [Low weight-for-height (WTHT) and low weight-for-age (WTA)]	Yes	No	Yes	1729	6.5
D	Wasting, Stunting and Underweight (All three anthropometric failures)	Yes	Yes	Yes	1222	6.0
E	Stunting and Underweight [Low height-for-age (HTA) and Low weight-for-age (WTA)]	No	Yes	Yes	3552	16.6
F	Stunting only [Low height-for-age (HTA)]	No	Yes	No	3467	11.5
G	Underweight only [Low weight-for-age (WTA)]	No	No	Yes	704	3.0
Overall CIAF	B + C + D+ E + F + G				12,066	48.2

^a Another theoretical combination would be the children who were “wasted and stunted” but not underweight. This combination is not physically possible since a child cannot have a low WTHT and low HTA and not be underweight

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