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Demographic and Health Survey 2010

Malawi, 2010
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MWI_2010_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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National Statistical Office [Malawi] and ICF Macro, Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Height for Age percent of reference median for respondents to female survey (C_BIOFHTAPCTRM)

Data file: MWI2010-C

Overview

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Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: -
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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
BIOFHTAPCTRM (V441) reports the respondent's height-for-age as a percent of the median height 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.

The reference standard contains data for children up to age 18. For all women age 18 and over, the value of 215 months (17 years, 11 months) is used, based on the assumption that women are fully grown by age 18.

HEIGHTFEM (V438) reports the respondent's length or height as measured by DHS personnel.

The related variable BIOFHTAPCT (V439) reports the respondent's height-for-age percentile relative to smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex, for the same reference population.

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Concept
Name Vocabulary
Female anthropometry Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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