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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1998
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CMR_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Ministère des Investissements Publics et de l’Aménagement du Territoire [Cameroon] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child's height measured lying down or standing up (C_HWHTHOWMEAS)

Data file: CMR1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1005
End: 1005
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1007) WAS LENGTH/HEIGHT OF CHILD MEASURED LYING DOWN OR STANDING UP?

LYING 1
STANDING 2
Categories
Value Category
0 Not measured
1 Lying down
2 Standing up
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
6 Inconsistent
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
HWHTHOWMEAS (HW15) reports whether the height of children under age 5 was measured when they were lying down or standing up. According to the DHS Recode Manuals:


In DHS surveys, children aged less than 24 months are to be measured lying down, children 24 months or older are to be measured standing up. There may, however, be a considerable discrepancy between policy and practice!

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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