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Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 1987
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MLI_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Population pour le Developpement (CERPOD) de l'Institut du Sahel and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Weight for age percentile (CDC standards) (C_HWWTAPCT)

Data file: MLI1987-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 614
End: 617
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
801. CHECK TABLE 1:

FOR EACH LIVING CHILD BORN SINCE MARCH 1984 (THAT IS TO SAY 3 TO 36 MONTHS OLD) RECORD THE LINE NUMBER, THE BIRTH DATE, THE WEIGHT AND THE HEIGHT.

FIRST NAME AND LAST NAME____

LINE NUMBER____

MONTH/BIRTH____
YEAR/BIRTH 19____

HEIGHT IN CM____

WEIGHT IN GR____
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, 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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var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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