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Fig. 5

From: Being the younger child in a large African Family: a study of birth order as a risk factor for poor health using the demographic and health surveys for 18 countries

Fig. 5

Stunted or Low Weight by Birth Order, Children Ages 12–59 Months. Footnote: Restricted to children ages 12–59 months and a 4+ birth order, whose mothers were 30–34 at child’s birth. Maternal characteristics are at time of survey except for age at child’s birth. Stunted is defined as a height for age below minus two standard deviations from an established WHO reference mean; Low Weight is defined as a weight for age below minus two standard deviations from an established WHO reference mean [24, 29]

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