International Journal of Academic and Applied Research (IJAAR)
  Year: 2021 | Volume: 5 | Issue: 11 | Page No.: 23-30
Estimating Toddlers Growth Median in Kertosari Village of Banyuwangi City Using Local Linear Nonparametric Regression
Nur Chamidah, Ardi Kurniawan, Toha Saifudin

Abstract:
One of the health indicators as a measure of success in achieving SDGs is the nutritional status of children under five. Nutritional status of children under five can be measured by age (A), weight body (W), height (H). These three variables are presented in the form of three indicators anthropometry, namely: Weight by Age (W/A), Height by Age (H/A) and Body Weight according to Height (W/H) or Body Mass Index by Age (BMI/A). Based on those anthropometric indexes, underweight is a nutritional status of toddlers characterized by a lack of weight, height, and BMI. Talking about underweight, there are 2,878 toddlers out of 42,597 total toddlers in Banyuwangi or 6.8% of Banyuwangi toddlers are underweight. In this paper we discuss estimating median of toddlers growth in four sub-districts covered by Public Health Care Centre (PHCC) Kertosari of Banyuwangi city, a city in East Java Province, Indonesia based on weight, height, and BMI using local linear nonparametric regression for designing median standard growth charts of toddlers which would be compared with WHO standard growth charts. The W/A, H/A, and BMI/A growth charts of toddlers in Banyuwangi show that the growth of boys is greater than that of girls. In addition, W/A and H/A growths of toddlers in Banyuwangi are less than those of toddlers based on WHO-2005 standard growth chart but there is a different behavior for BMI/A toddlers in Banyuwangi when compared to the WHO-2005 standard growth chart.