ANTHROPOMETRY IN PRIVILEGED ETHIOPIAN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN: <i>CNU Report No. 33</i>

Eksmyr, R

doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.1970.tb08982.x

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“…Habicht et al (1974), for example, found that the height gap between the rich and poor populations in nigeria was even wider than that between high-ranking groups in a typical low-income country and in the United States. 10 Similar conclusions were reached by fiawoo (1979) in his study of Ghana, by Eksmyr (1970), based on data on several Ethiopian ethnic groups, and by Graitcer and Gentry (1981), who studied Egypt, Haiti and Togo. The height distribution for children from rich families in Graitcer and Gentry (1981) are also in line with those for the United States.…”

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This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the oecD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the organisation or of the governments of its member countries This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. The statistical data for israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant israeli authorities. The use of such data by the oecD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, east Jerusalem and israeli settlements in the West bank under the terms of international law. corrigenda to oecD publications may be found on line at: www.oecd.org/about/publishing/corrigenda.htm. © oecD, iiSH 2014You can copy, download or print oecD content for your own use, and you can include excerpts from oecD publications, databases and multimedia products in your own documents, presentations, blogs, websites and teaching materials, provided that suitable acknowledgment of the source and copyright owner is given. all requests for public or commercial use and translation rights should be submitted to rights@oecd.org. Requests for permission to photocopy portions of this material for public or commercial use shall be addressed directly to the copyright clearance center (ccc) at info@copyright.com or the centre français d'exploitation du droit de copie (cFc) at contact@cfcopies.com. We are very pleased today, more than a decade after the release of Maddison's seminal work, to renew our association with his legacy. We do so through a report that both connects with and departs from his contributions to economic history. It connects, due to the report's long-term, global perspective, covering the period 1820-2010. It departs by going beyond GDP to encompass a broader set of dimensions that shape people's living conditions, such as their wages, longevity, education, height and personal security, among others.The present volume represents the culmination of the efforts undertaken by a group of economic historians as part of an international, inter-disciplinary effort, the Clio-Infra project. We are releasing it in the context of the better life initiative, which was launched by the OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurría, in 2011 (and multi-disciplinary) as angus Maddison has demonstrated in the past, such global datasets can be produced only after major efforts in peer-reviewed research and standardisation of the underlying national data. Therefore a collaborative effort is needed to deal with the complexities involved in gathering, systematising and analysing data from a wide variety of disparate sources. This requires teamwork, in which experts on various topics, regions and periods work together to create standardised datasets of key historical variables. This is the approach adopted by both The Maddison Project, which focuses on h...

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“…Also in the group of privileged preschool children, who in other respects were close to western standards, the triceps skinfold was reported to be, on the average, only 85% of the British standard [5]. These values should be considered in the light of findings in Tanzania [16] and Ethiopia [6] indicating that Africans may have a body fat distribution different from that of Caucasians.…”

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“…Considering this, it is interesting that the privileged preschool children of about 4-5 years of age were slightly inferior to the younger ones of the same 18 E ksmyr study [5]. It was pointed out that the youngest children more often had mothers who were members of a very active Association of Educated Women in Addis Ababa, constituting a progressive elite within the total group of parents.…”

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Anthropometry in Ethiopian Private School Children CNU Report No. 40

Eksmyr¹

1971

Ann Nutr Metab

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For the purpose of establishing local anthropometric standards, 1,263 Ethiopian children of both sexes, 5–16 years of age, attending two private schools in Addis Ababa, were investigated. The school fees were such that only relatively well-to-do families were able to keep their children in these schools. The study was made more complicated by the difficulty in obtaining exact ages. After reducing the group to those for whom relatively valid information on age was obtained, the weight, height and upper arm circumference were found to be evidently inferior to western standards. On the other hand, the weight and upper arm circumference were significantly superior to those in underprivileged Ethiopian children of corresponding age and sex. No significant difference was found in height, however. The biceps and triceps skinfold thicknesses usually lay at the level of 75–80% of the British standard, except for girls 14–16 years of age, for whom higher values of triceps skinfold were recorded. Partly because of the difficulty in assessment of age, and partly because no adolescents of the upper teen-ages were investigated, no definite conclusions can be drawn as to the normal growth of Ethiopian school-age children living under relatively good socioeconomic conditions. As an alternative temporary solution, until Ethiopian standards with age as reference become available, tables of weight und upper arm circumference, using height as a reference were elaborated.

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“…Measurement of the arm circumference is useful because it is not influenced by age misreporting. Even though other factors such as genetic factors, low birth weight and diseases may cause underweight, it has been shown in several studies that African children have almost identical weight for age curves as the Europeans given an equal amount and composition of nutrients (Burgess and Burgess, 1964;Kahn and Freeman, 1959;Eksmyr, 1970;Ruthishauser, 1965). From the point of view of Nigerian children, it is safe to state that the genetic factor is thus not very important.…”

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The regional correlates of child nutrition in rural Southeastern Nigeria

Uyanga

1981

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The paper examines some measures of child nutrition status and factors influencing it in two contrasting regional economies. Feeding and weaning habits, average monthly expenditure on food, and some anthropometric measures by age of children are assessed. Regression of nutrient intake with some key regional variables is made. Measurable factors of child nutrition vary between areas, demonstrating some environmental and spatio-economic relationships.

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ANTHROPOMETRY IN PRIVILEGED ETHIOPIAN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN: CNU Report No. 33

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Anthropometry in Ethiopian Private School Children CNU Report No. 40

The regional correlates of child nutrition in rural Southeastern Nigeria

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