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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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Weight for height percentile (CDC standards) (C_HWWTHTPCT)

Data file: BDI1987-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 687
End: 690
Width: 4
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
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, HWWTHTPCT (HW10) reports the child's weight-for-height percentile, based on smoothed percentile growth charts by height and sex developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Low child weight-for-height, or "wasting," is an indicator of 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. HWHEIGHT (HW3) reports the child's measured height in centimeters. 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-height using the same reference population, see HWWHZNCHS (HW11). HWWHZNCHS reports the difference between the child's weight and the median weight of the CDC reference population of the same height and sex, expressed in units equal to one standard deviation of the reference population's distribution.

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var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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