Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2008

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NGA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Weight for age percentile (CDC standards) (C_HWWTAPCT)

Data file: NGA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1516

End: 1519

Width: 4

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

505. WEIGHT IN KILOGRAMS

KG. ___.___

Value	Category
9997	Flagged cases
9998	Missing
9999	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For surviving children born in the three to five years before the survey, HWWTAPCT (HW7) reports the child's weight-for-age percentile, based on smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Low child weight-for-age, or "underweight," is an indicator of chronic and/or acute malnutrition. The 5th percentile on growth charts has often been used as a screening cutoff to identify infants and children at greater nutritional and health risk.

HWWEIGHT (HW2) reports the child's weight as measured by DHS personnel. The related variable KIDAGEMO (HW1) reports the child's age in months at the time of measurement.

For an alternative measure of child wasting in terms of weight-for-age using the same reference population, see HWWAZNCHS (HW8). HWWAZNCHS reports the difference between the child's weight and the median weight of the CDC reference population of the same age and sex, expressed in units equal to one standard deviation of the reference population's distribution.

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Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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