WHO Anthro Survey Analyser and other tools - World Health Organization

The software is design for Windows and consists of three modules: i) Anthropometric calculator, ii) Individual assessment, and iii) Nutritional survey. The first two modules concern the calculation of z-scores (or percentiles) for the assessment of individual child's growth, and thus very pertinent for clinical application. It should be noted however that, for the module "Nutritional survey", the methodology for calculating the estimates of prevalence and confidence intervals was still not updated to align with the more recent tool above, the WHO Anthro Survey Analyser.

The main differences between the old standard analysis and the most recent one, are:

• Prevalence estimates in Anthro Software include children up to 60.99 months, while in the Anthro Survey Analyser, only children below 60 months are included, to align with the target indicator age group (under 5 years).
• Calculation of confidence intervals around prevalence estimates was not updated in Anthro Software to take into consideration complex sample designs.
• Anthro Survey analyser included a new data validation related to the information on measurement position (recumbent length or standing height).

Language options enable users to change from the default English to Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian or Portuguese.

Before downloading the software please read the license agreement.

To download the software and respective manuals click on the links below. We recommend users to study first the manual, in particular the description of the requirements and installation (e.g.,.NET framework required before installing the software).