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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 height percentile (C_HWARMHTPCT)

Data file: MWI1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 875
End: 878
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1009. ARM CIRCUMFERENCE (in centimeters)

CIRCUMFERENCE___.__
Categories
Value Category
9997 Flagged cases
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
For surviving children born in the three to five years before the survey, HWARMHTPCT (HW24) reports the child's arm circumference-for-height percentile, based on smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex 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 related variable HWHEIGHT (HW3) reports the child's height in centimeters at the time of measurement.

concept

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