Training Handbook includes resource materials on various training subjects: survey methodology; general procedures; anthropometric equipment; and how to weigh and measure children. (Adapted from How to weigh and Measure Children: Assessing the Nutritional Status of Young Children in Household Surveys, prepared by the United Nations Department of Technical Co-operation, New York, 1986).

102 Collecting anthropometric measures of children

• Introduction
  
• Methodology
  
• General procedures for anthropometry
  
• Equipment
  
• Height measure of a child standing
  
• Height measure (length) of a child lying down
  
• Weight measure using a salter scale
  
• Appendix 1 - anthropometry: survey form
  
• Appendix 2: calendar for calculating age in months