Abstract:This research utilizes the Rasch model to generate linear measures of nutrition from data on foods fed to children, thus providing a gauge with which to measure levels of child nutrition across a population. Linear measures are standardized, interval units that allow comparisons of latent constructs over time and among differing socio-economic variables. In this research, the latent construct is child nutrition. The data were drawn from the 2007 and 2013 Liberian Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). The DHS p… Show more
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