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Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 1992
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MWI_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Statistical Office [Malawi] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Upper arm circumference for age percent of reference median (C_HWARMAGEPCTRM)

Data file: MWI1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 870
End: 874
Width: 5
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1009. ARM CIRCUMFERENCE (in centimeters)

CIRCUMFERENCE___.__
Categories
Value Category
99997 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
For surviving children born under in the three to five years before the survey, HWARMAGEPCTRM (HW23) reports the child's arm circumference-for-age as a percent of the median arm circumference for a reference population of the same age and sex. For this variable, the reference population was developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

HWARMCIR (HW20) reports the child's upper arm circumference, as measured by DHS personnel.

The complementary DHS variable HWARMAGEPCT (HW21) reports the child's arm circumference-for-age percentile within the same reference population used in HWARMAGEPCTRM.

concept

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