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 varibales:

• 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 diarrhe (Diarrhea cases)
• Number of children who are underweight (0-6 months, 6-23 months, 24-59 months)

Your task is to:

• 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
• NB: The task should be carried out as an RMarkdown [refer to the notes shared earlier]

Tips: The rating of the task will be informed by the extent of your exploratory data analysis, use of graphics and maps, and insights from your analytical approaches.

Incase you have challenges with downloading the data, use this link to access the raw csv data: [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cema-uonbi/internship_task/main/data/cema_internship_task_2023.csv]

We have also provided you with shapefiles incase you need to use them.

Kindly save your RMarkdown script with your name and submit it to this link: [https://forms.gle/kFCE8pBqDFXFjSuG7]

Note:

• You should only submit the RMarkdown script
• The form will close on Friday at 6pm EAT [we will not consider submissions not meeting this timeline]