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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 of woman (kilos) (W_WEIGHTFEM)

Data file: CMR1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2110
End: 2113
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1008) WEIGHT (IN KILOGRAMS)

WEIGHT: ___
Categories
Value Category
9994 Not present
9995 Refused
9996 Other
9997 Out of plausible range
9998 Missing
9999 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
WEIGHTFEM (V437) reports the woman's weight as measured by DHS personnel. There is one implied decimal place in the weight. Dividing WEIGHTFEM by 10 will yield the woman's measured weight in kilograms.

concept

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