The objective of the assignment is to design and test first phase map of nutritional status of Indonesia using the most current data on six selected districts as the basis for targeting nutrition interventions to priority sub-districts, villages and households. The methodology and the maps will be used as a prototype that the government will then further develop and expand to cover more districts as part of the National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention. The main objective of the mapping methodology is to help policy makers improve their decision making when implementing stunting related interventions.
The proposed method of the nutrition map development mimics to the small-area estimation (SAE) developed by Elbers, Lanjouw, and Lanjouw (2002, 2003). The method combines survey data with census data to obtain estimates at a lower level of aggregation (at sub-district and village levels) than the survey allows (at district level).