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Table 1 Sample size calculation, 2014

From: Associations of childhood, maternal and household dietary patterns with childhood stunting in Ethiopia: proposing an alternative and plausible dietary analysis method to dietary diversity scores

 

Baseline (2010) rate (%)

Expected endline rate (%)

Percentage point (pp) or change in mean z-score

Power

Intra-class correlation at baseline (2010)

Intra-class correlation at 2013 progress evaluation survey

Minimum sample size required

Stunting (24-59 m)

55.9

48.9

7 pp

0.8

0.032

NA

1450

Exclusive breast feeding (0–5.9 m)

72.4

79.4

7 pp

0.8

0.026

0.005

600

Minimum dietary diversity (6–23.9 m)

6.3

11.3

5 pp

0.8

0.038

0.125

900

Minimum total sample size required

      

2950