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How To... - Read A Data Table - Trend Tables
Summary of Health Indicators
Use
Use the PedNSS and PNSS Summary Health Indicator Trend tables to
monitor patterns in the prevalence of health indicators. Information in
these tables can help to identify health indicators that improve or worsen
over time. These tables include all years that the contributor has
participated in PedNSS or PNSS.
PedNSS Summary Health Indicator Trend tables include:
- Table 12, Summary of Trends in Growth and Anemia Indicators
- Table 13, Summary of Trends in Breastfeeding Indicators
PNSS Summary Health Indicator Trend tables include:
- Table 16, Summary of Trends in Maternal Health Indicators
- Table 17, Summary of Trends in Maternal Behavioral Indicators
- Table 18, Summary of Trends in Smoking Indicators
- Table 19, Summary of Trends in Infant Health Indicators
These tables can be used to answer questions such as:
- Is the prevalence of low birthweight, short stature, overweight,
underweight, and anemia increasing, decreasing, or remaining stable from
one year to the next?
Interpreting the Data
The following paragraphs provide general information about the table
data that will help you with interpretation.
Title
For PedNSS and PNSS, the table titles show the health indicator or group of
health indicators that are analyzed in
the table.
For PNSS, the table title includes a group of health indicators but only
selected health indicators are included in the group.
Review the
PNSS table titles.
Sample: PedNSS Table 12C, Summary of Trends in Growth and Anemia Indicators
We're going to look at sections of the PedNSS Table 12C Summary of
Trends in Growth and Anemia Indicators. You can click on the View
Sample Table link below each portion to review the entire table. The sample
table is numbered to match the portions shown below.
Trends in Anemia and Overweight
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Data start with the most recent year. |
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Note that Anemia prevalence (%) improved more
than other health indicators during the 6-year period from 1997 to 2002
with a 5% decrease (from 16.9% to 11.9%).
A health indicator that worsened during the same time period was the
prevalence of Overweight (defined as > 95th) among children
> 2
years of age which increased 0.8% (from 13.2% to 14.0%). |
Review the definition of
Growth Indicators and
its prevalence calculation.
Review the definition of
Anemia and
its prevalence calculation.
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Sample PedNSS Table 12C, Summary of Trends in Growth and Anemia
Indicators