The Bulacan nutrition and health study: Part 1. Baseline socioeconomic and related characteristics of subject families and their impact on the nutritional health of infants

Using weight for age as the nutritional index, 544 infants were studied longitudinally for health/nutrition status from age 2 months to 26–29 months. Socioeconomic and related data, enumerated on subject families at the start of the study, were used in statistical modelling exercises to develop predictions of their impact on the nutritional health of the subjects. Factors of importance were parent educational attainment, income, family size and early post‐natal weight/height characteristics of the subjects themselves.