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Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Burundi, 1987
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BDI_1987_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Département de la Population du Ministère de l'Intérieur [Burundi], Insitute for Resrouce Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Height for age percent of reference median (CDC standards) (C_HWHTAPCTRM)

Data file: BDI1987-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 721
End: 725
Width: 5
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
802) INTERVIEWER:
SEE TABLE 1
FOR EACH LIVING CHILD, AGE 3 TO 36 MONTHS, RECORD THE ORDER NUMBER, THE BIRTH DATE, THE WEIGHT AND THE LENGTH.

RECORD THE NAMES STARTING WITH THE YOUNGEST CHILD.

ORDER NUMBER
NAME
MONTH OF BIRTH
YEAR OF BIRTH 19
WEIGHT IN KG
LENGTH IN CM
NOT MEASURED (SPECIFY REASON)
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 in the three to five years before the survey, HWHTAPCTRM (HW6) reports the child'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. Low child height-for-age, or "stunting," is an indicator of chronic malnutrition,

HWHEIGHT (HW3) reports the child's length or height as measured by DHS personnel. See this variable and HWHTHOWMEAS (HW15) for specifics on child length/height measurement. The related variable KIDAGEMO (HW1) reports the child's age in months at the time of measurement.

The similar variable HWHTAPCT (HW4) reports the child's height-for-age percentile relative to smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex, for the same reference population.

For an alternative measure of child stunting in terms of height-for-age, see HWHAZNCHS (HW5). HWHAZNCHS reports the difference between the child's height and the median height 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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