Standard Growth Charts for Weight of Children in East Java Using Local Linear Estimator

Abstract

Health Card that is in Indonesia called as Kartu Menuju Sehat (KMS) is used to asses nutritional status of children up to five years old. The anthropometric index recorded in the Health Card is weight for age. The goal of this paper is to design standard growth charts for both boy and girl of weight for age of children in East Java, Indonesia. These growth charts are used to assess nutritional status of children in East Java, Indonesia. The rate of growth of weight is not the same for every interval of ages. For this case, the using of local linear estimator is suitable to design standard growth charts of weight for age of children up to five years old. The results show that the average values of R-square are 99.72% for boy and 99.73% for girl. Also, the average values of mean square error are 0.02758 for boy and 0.02976 for girl. In addition, the standard growth charts for both boy and girl of weight for age of children up to five years old in East Java, Indonesia is lower than those of WHO-2005 standard charts.