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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
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GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Height for age percentile (female household members) (H_HWFHTAPCT)

Data file: GHA2008-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 462
End: 465
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
518. HEIGHT IN CENTIMETERS

WOMAN HEIGHT

CM _____.__
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 female household members, HWFHTAPCT (HA4) reports the woman's height-for-age percentile, based on smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex 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 for 215 months (17 years, 11 months) is used, based on the assumption that women are fully grown by age 18.

HWFHEIGHT (HA3) reports the woman's length or height as measured by DHS personnel.

concept

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