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Demographic and Health Survey 2011-12 - IPUMS Subset

Cote d'Ivoire, 2011 - 2012
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CIV_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère de la Santé et de la Lutte contre le Sida (MSLS), Ministère d’État, Ministère du Plan et du Développement of the Institut National de la Statistique (INS) [Côte d'Ivoire] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Height for Age percentile (CDC standards) (C_HWHTAPCT)

Data file: CIV2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1358
End: 1361
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
606) HEIGHT IN CENTIMETERS

CENTIMETERS_______
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, HWHTAPCT (HW4) reports the child's height-for-age percentile, based on smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Low child height-for-age, or "stunting," is an indicator of chronic 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.

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.

For an alternative measure of child stunting in terms of height-for-age for the same reference population, 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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