Child Welfare Deprivation in Rural Nigeria: A Counting Approach

Table 4

Deprivation rates.

Dimension	Deprivation cutoff	Deprived children (%)	All
Safe drinking water	Unimproved water source	63.1	63.1
Sanitation	Unimproved toilet facility	96.1	96.1
Housing	Rudimentary wall material	65.6	58.5
	Rudimentary floor material	58.9
	Rudimentary roof material	42.4
Health	No complete vaccination	79.2	79.2
Nutrition	Stunting; (height for age)	45.9	32.3
	Wasting; (weight for height)	15.6
	Underweight; (weight for age)	27.2