This survey was conducted in the Oromia region of Kombolcha woreda in the north East Hararghe zone by Goal Ethiopia among selected clusters of household children aged 6 and 59 months. The objective of this survey was to estimate the prevalence of acute and chronic malnutrition, examine the current health status of the survey population by considering mortality and morbidity rates and child vitamin A supplementation and vaccination status, and assess the food security situation among children aged 6 to 59 months. The findings of this survey revealed the following issues.

1. The prevalence of acute malnutrition based on weight-for-height z-scores was 6.3 % of them classified as global acute malnutrition (GAM), and 0.4 % of children were severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The crude mortality rate and under-five mortality rates were estimated at 0.22 and 0.49 deaths/10,000/day, respectively.
2. About 13.3 % of the children suffered from diarrhea, 1.2 % from cough, and 3 % from fever. The percentage of children vaccinated against measles by card, BCG by scar, and who received vitamin A in the last 6 months were 33.5 %, 33.0 %, and 21.4% of the respondents respectively. 
3. In regard to food security, 64.7% of households got their food from their own production, and 33.7% bought food from the market. In the next three months, 20% expect to get food from their own production, while 74.0% expect to buy food from the market, and 69.6% of households reported eating more than 2 meals per day. About 12% and 7.3 of households get clean water from piped water and protected springs respectively.
4. Seventy-three percent, 46.7%, 23.3%, 43.3%, 33.3%, 53.3%, 26.7%, 63.3%, and 43.3% of the communities agreed that they traveled one or more hours to get to a health facility, responded that there was below-average pasture condition,  responded that pasture availability was good, responded that water availability for livestock was average, responded that availability of water for livestock was below average, communities responded that livestock herds had decreased in size, responded that livestock herds were the same in size, respondents said that the physical condition of livestock was good, and respondents said that the nearest major market took them to walk for more than two hours.

• Nutrition
• malnutrition
• global acute malnutrition
• acute malnutrition
• vaccination
• measles
• TB
• survey
• Kombolcha woreda
• East Hararghe zone
• Oromia region

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This dataset on the nutrition survey was conducted by Goal Ethiopia using a two-stage cluster sampling approach in Kombolcha woreda of North East Hararghe of Oromia region among 980 children aged 6-59 months conducted between 2nd April to 6th April 19th April 2009. The dataset captures information on the prevalence of global acute malnutrition or nutritional status by measuring MUAC, morbidity status, health-seeking condition, child vaccination, and supplementation includes vaccinated against measles, BCG (TB), Vitamin A supplementation, household characteristics including the condition of food security, accessibility to water, and community discussion which includes the level of access to health facilities, condition of the pasture, availability of water for livestock, and the condition of livestock. Generally, the objective of the survey was to estimate the prevalence of acute and chronic malnutrition, examine the current health status of the survey population by considering mortality and morbidity rates and child vitamin A supplementation and vaccination status, and assess the food security situation among children aged 6 to 59 months (or 65-<110cm in height). The data set also incorporated the household’s main livelihood, community discussion regarding health facility time, and water availability for livestock.

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