Office of Statistics and the Surveys on the Living Standards and Poverty Measurement (LSMS), the last of which was completed in 2005. 213.Surveys completed in recent years have shown that the prevalence of three types of malnutrition in children below five has declined significantly between 1995 and 2006: 80% for severe underweight, 57% for severe short stature, 80% of the backlog of weight to height. The MICS 4 currently in preparation will assess progress. Evolution of malnutrition of children aged below 5 years in Algeria from 1995 to 2012 214.Data from nutritional surveillance through sentinel sites shows a 50% decline of malnutrition every 5 years regardless of the type. 215.Regarding the cases of rickets, no deaths or serious hospitalized cases have been recorded since 2008. The prevalence of rickets due to deficiency according to data from sentinel sites ranged from 0.9% to 1% from 2005 to 2012. As for deficiencyanaemia prevalence, according to data from sentinel sites, it was 34% in 2008. A survey of the situation of women of reproductive age and girls and boys aged 0-14 years is being prepared. 34