2015 LIVING CONDITIONS MONITORING SURVEY

Seventh Edition

This data file contains information on Household income, Education and emloyment levels.

The information on the nutritional status of children in the 2015 LCMS survey included anthropometric measurements for children under the age of 5 years. These anthropometric measurements allow for measurement and evaluation of the overall nutritional and health status of young children. The evaluation also allows for identification of subgroups of the child population that are at increased risk of faltered growth, disease, impaired mental development and death. The factors that influence nutritional status of children are many. Among them are poverty status of mothers, poor diet and poor environmental conditions of
households. These can impair growth in children and result n reduced weight or height.

The three standard indices of physical growth that describe the nutritional status of children are defined as
follows:
Stunting (height-for-age) is a condition reflecting the cumulative effect of chronic malnutrition.

Wasting (weight-for-height) is a failure to gain weight in relation to height. It is a short-term effect and reflects a recent and severe process that has led to substantial weight loss, usually associated with starvation and/or disease.

Underweight (weight-for-age) is a condition of low weight in relation to age. It is a composite index of weight-for-height and height-for-age and thus does
not distinguish between acute malnutrition (wasting) and chronic malnutrition (stunting). A child can be underweight for his/her age because he/she is stunted or
wasted, alternatively because he/she is wasted and stunted. Weight for age is a good overall indicator of a population’s nutritional health.

This data file contains information on Child Health and Nutrition on the frequency of consumption of solid foods by children (0-59 months). Infants and young children eat small quantities of food at a go therefore, frequent meals are necessary to provide them with required nutrients. It is recommended that infants aged 6-8 months eat 2-3 meals, and infants aged 19-23 months eat 3-4 meals per day and 1-2 additional snacks as required (WHO, 1998). The number of meals required is based on the energy density of foods being fed. Consuming an appropriate variety of foods is essential for the child’s nutritional wellbeing.

This data file contains information on food crops grown by anybody in the houehold or somebody on their behalf in the last agricultural season prior to the survey

This data file contains information on Crop production, Poultry and Livestock and sales. ownership of livestock and poultry, and fish farming activities
by the household:

Livestock ownership (cattle, goats, pigs, sheep), and Poultry

This data file contains information on the deaths recorded in the households , death by sex, age and cause of death

This data file contains information on food and non food expenditure per month

This data file contains information on food and non food expenditure

This data file contains information on food and non food expenditure by wealth quintile

This data file contains information on Housing Characteristics, Household amenities and access to facilities

This data file contains information on household asset ownership

This data file contains information on househlds expenditure on livestock and costs

This data file contains information about an individual in a household, household members age, sex, educational background and employment status

This data file contains information on the poverty status of household

This data file contains information on Crop production by type, quantity and land size

This data file contains information on self assessed poverty, a subjective measure of poverty based on the perception of the household. Households were asked to specify their poverty status across three possible categories, Very Poor, Moderately Poor or Non-Poor. This information is meant to complement other measures of poverty, obtained using money metric measures, and provide some context to the overall picture of poverty in Zambia.