You have been provided with a dataset (in the data folder above) which contains monthly data for children <5 years, disaggregated at a county level for the period January 2021 to June 2023.
The dataset contains the following variables:
- Period (months from January 2021 to June 2023)
- County (the 47 counties in Kenya)
- Total number of children dewormed (Total Dewormed)
- Number of children <5 years with acute malnutrition (Acute Malnutrition)
- Number of children stunted (0-6 months, 6-23 months, 24-59 months)
- Number of children <5 years with diarrhea (Diarrhea cases)
- Number of children who are underweight (0-6 months, 6-23 months, 24-59 months)
- Conduct exploratory data analysis
- State an appropriate research question you would want to answer from the data
- Carry out appropriate data analysis to address the question you have stated above