Chee, Heng Leng and Khor, Geok Lin and Arshad, Fatimah and Wan Muda, Wan Abdul Manan and Shabdin, Ahmad Affendi and Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi and Abdullah, Rohani and Bidin, Siti Jamilah and Emby, Zahid and Mohd Marjan, Zamaliah (2002) Nutritional assessment of pre-school children in rural village of the family dynamics, lifestyle and nutrition study (1997-2001). Malaysian Journal of Nutrition, 8 (1). pp. 13-31. ISSN 1394-035X

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Abstract

This paper presents the socio-economic profile of households in the Family Dynamics Study (FDS) (1997-2001) and makes comparisons with the earlier Functional Groups Study (FGS) (1992-1996). For the current study, FGS villages with a high prevalence of child malnutrition were purposively selected. In each village selected, all households were included, and interviews with a structured questionnaire were conducted in April-May 1998. Incomes were generally low and incidence of poverty was high; 49.6% of the households were under the poverty line income, of which 37.2% were poor and 12.4% were hard core poor. Overall, only 23.2% of heads of households were in agricultural occupations, others being primarily waged workers and petty traders. Livestock rearing was widespread (57.8%), and most households (90.4%) owned at least one motorized vehicle, the most common being the motorcycle. The majority of households had refrigerators (73.6%), washing machines (58.8%), and televisions (91.1%); but telephones (42.2%), mobile phones (6.1%) and computers (2.3%) were less common. Although 99.7% of households had electricity supply and 95.1% had either a flush or pour flush latrine, only 57.4% had piped water supply. In comparison to the FGS, poverty in the current study is lower (49.6% of FDS households are poor compared to 55.2% of FGS households), the proportion of household heads in agricultural occupations is also lower (26.9% compared to 55.3%), while all other socioeconomic indicators were better, except for piped water supply, which remains inadequate for households in the current study.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	nutrition, rural area, children
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions:	College of Arts and Sciences
Depositing User:	Mrs. Juwita Johari
Date Deposited:	05 Jul 2010 01:28
Last Modified:	05 Jul 2010 01:41
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/121

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