Berhan Ayele, Abaineh Aemere, Teshome Gebre, Zerihun Tadesse, Nicole E. Stoller, Craig W. See, Sun N. Yu, Bruce D. Gaynor, Charles E. McCulloch, Travis C. Porco, Paul M. Emerson, Thomas M. Lietman, Jeremy D. Keenan

Undernutrition is an important risk factor for childhood mortality, and remains a major problem facing many developing countries. Millennium Development Goal 1 calls for a reduction in underweight children, implemented through a variety of interventions. To adequately judge the impact of these interventions, it is important to know the reproducibility of the main indicators for undernutrition. In this study, we trained individuals from rural communities in Ethiopia in anthropometry techniques and measured intra- and inter-observer reliability.