Nutritional Status and Health Characteristics of Older Adults in Lalitpur, Nepal

Lalitpur District, Nepal, is the focus of this dataset on nutritional status and health-related characteristics of older adults. The data was contributed by author Eebaraj Simkhada and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on March 18, 2026.

Use Cases

• Assess malnutrition prevalence based on Mini Nutritional Assessment scores mentioned in the description.
• Analyze the correlation between financial dependency and nutritional status as suggested by platform tags.
• Model health outcomes based on Body Mass Index (BMI) data referenced in the tags.
• Study the demographic and health characteristics of older adults dwelling in a metropolitan city.

Strengths

• Data is licensed as CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse and sharing.
• The dataset is small (9.5 KB), making it quick to download and inspect.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Eebaraj Simkhada via figshare.

Collection Method

Platform tags suggest a study using stage cluster sampling.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 17:34:50; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lalitpur District, specifically Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Nepal.