This geostatistical dataset was extracted from the Demographic and Health Survey 2014 conducted in Ghana.
The columns found in the file are the following.
- lng: Longitude of the sampling cluster.
- lat: Latitude of the sampling cluster.
- utm_x: x-coordinate of the sampling cluster in UTM projection.
- utm_y: y-coordinate of the sampling cluster in UTM projection.
- age: age in months of the child.
- sex: sex of the child.
- HAZ: height-for-age Z-score.
- WAZ: weight-for-age Z-score.
- urb: binary indicator: urban area=1; rural area=0.
- etn: ethnic group.
- edu: level of education of the mother, which takes integer values from 1="Poorly educated" to 3="Highly educated".
- wealth: wealth score of the household, which takes integer values from 1="Poor" to 3="Rich".
Data file: malnutrition.csv
Ghana boundaries: Ghana_bndrs.csv