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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1998
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NER_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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CARE International [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Height for Age percent of reference median for respondents to female survey (W_BIOFHTAPCTRM)

Data file: NER1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2182
End: 2186
Width: 5
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
906) HEIGHT (IN CENTIMETERS)

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Categories
Value Category
99995 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
BIOFHTAPCTRM (V441) reports the respondent'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.

The reference standard contains data for children up to age 18. For all women age 18 and over, the value of 215 months (17 years, 11 months) is used, based on the assumption that women are fully grown by age 18.

HEIGHTFEM (V438) reports the respondent's length or height as measured by DHS personnel.

The related variable BIOFHTAPCT (V439) reports the respondent's height-for-age percentile relative to smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex, for the same reference population.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Female anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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