Note that the DHS was fielded from September -December, i.e. during a different season than the LEAP survey. The higher consumption of cassava leaves could be due to this seasonality. The appropriate nutritional measure is therefore height-for-age z-scores (HAZ), which has been commonly used as an indicator of overall long-term health and human capital (Victora et al., Weight, on the other hand, is more often used as a short-term indicator of undernutrition, since weight responds more quickly to deviations in food intake and infection.