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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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Weight for height percent of reference median (WHO) (respondents to women's survey) (W_BIOFWTHTRMWHO)

Data file: CMR1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2141
End: 2145
Width: 5
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1008) WEIGHT (IN KILOGRAMS)

WEIGHT: ___
Categories
Value Category
99995 Flagged cases
99998 Missing
99999 NIU (not in universe)
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
BIOFWTHTRMWHO (V444) reports the respondent's weight-for-height as a percent of the median weight for a reference population of the same height. This variable uses the World Health Organization (WHO) reference standard. This index has been adjusted for pregnant women according to duration of pregnancy.

The following variables report the respondent's weight for height as a percent of the median weight for different reference populations:
BIOFWTHTRMDHS (V442) uses a DHS reference standard
BIOFWTHTRMFOG (V444) uses the Metropolitan Life or Fogarty reference standard

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