Malnutrition data

The malnutrition data, from the United Nations Children's Fund data warehouse, include two variables, stunted growth and the prevalence of low birth weight, collected in 77 countries from 1985 to 2019. Stunted growth is defined as the proportion of newborns aging from 0 to 59 months with a low height-for-age measurement (below two standard deviations). The stunted growth data represent a point sparseness case with 4-23 recordings per nation. The low birth weight data are a partial sparseness case, with recordings during 2000-2015 only.

It can be used in the functional data analysis and the sparse functional data fitting.