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Executive Summary
Between December 11 and 17, 2024, a SMART survey was conducted across all six Payams (Central Malakal (County HQ), Eastern Malakal, Northern Malakal, Southern Malakal, Lelo, Ogot) in Malakal County, Upper Nile State, South Sudan. The survey employed a two-stage sample technique (This is probability sampling, leading to results representative for the conditions of the population researched): first, villages were identified using the proportion to population size (PPS) method of cluster sampling, and second, households were selected using simple random sampling.
Anthropometric data was collected from 537 households in 45 clustered villages in Malakal County and analyzed to determine the nutritional status of 638 children aged 6-59 months. Since the final sample size exceeded the minimum 499 children required as per the applied sampling methodology in the validated protocol, there was no need to activate any reserve clusters.