Table 2. Average Annual Rate of Decline in Undernutrition in the Care Group Mozambique Project Areas Compared With Mozambique Nationwide

Location	Age group of children^a	% of children < 2 SD below the standard median/mean of weight-for-age		% Difference	No. of years (endline – baseline)	Avg. annual rate of decline
Location	Age group of children^a	Baseline (dates)	Endline (dates)	% Difference	No. of years (endline – baseline)	Avg. annual rate of decline
Project Areas	0–23 m	26.5%(Feb 2006)	16.7%(Jun 2010)	9.8%	4.4	2.2%
Nationwide^b (DHS and UNICEF/MICS)	0–59 m	20.0%(2003)	18.0%(2008)	2.0%	5	0.4%
Nationwide^b (DHS)	0–59 m	20.0%(2003)	14.9%(2011)	5.1%	8	0.6%

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; DHS, Demographic and Health Surveys; MICS, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey.
↵a Comparable national data for children 0–23 months old from the DHS and MICS surveys are not available.
↵b Nationwide data are from the 2003 and 2011 DHS^21-22 and the 2008 UNICEF/MICS.²³ The 2003 DHS reported an undernutrition level of 24.6% using earlier WHO nutritional standards. The 2008 UNICEF/MICS survey recalculated the 2003 DHS numbers, shown here, using the WHO 2006 nutritional standards.