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ROXAS City: The National Nutrition Survey (NNS) starts this month
and will go on until December 2008, reported Panay News. The survey
aims to collect data on food, nutrition and health situation,
National Statistical Coordinating Board Secretary-General Romulo
Virola said.
The survey is done every five years. This year,
it will be conducted by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute.
The results will be released on December 2009.
Some of the major data to be collected include
anthropometric data, household food consumption, household food
security, feeding practices of zero to 23 months old children,
household participation in government programs, signs and symptoms
of various diseases, biochemical and other information.
Anthropometry focuses on underweight and under
height cases, thinness, and overweight or obesity cases at the
provincial level.
The biochemical survey will measure the
prevalence of Vitamin A deficiency, iodine deficiency disorder, and
iron deficiency anemia.
The 2008 NNS is a nationwide survey, which will
be carried out in 48,300 sample households in 3,400 enumeration
areas—with an estimated 300,000 individuals for the anthropometry
component.
The rest of the survey will be undertaken in 850
enumeration areas with 6,367 households as respondents.
Aside from serving as inputs to national plans
and programs on nutrition, children, food fortification, and
prevention and control of noncommunicable disease, the NNS will also
generate indicators on the country’s Millennium Development Goals
achievements.
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