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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
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Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Weight for height percent of reference median (WHO) (female household members) (H_HWFWTHTPCTRMWHO)

Data file: GHA2008-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 490
End: 494
Width: 5
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
517. WEIGHT IN KILOGRAMS

WOMAN WEIGHT

KG _____.__
Categories
Value Category
99997 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
For female household members, HWFWTHTPCTRMWHO (HA12B) reports the woman's weight-for-height as a percent of the median weight for a reference population of the same height. This variable uses the World Health Organization (WHO) reference standard. This index has been adjusted for pregnant women according to duration of pregnancy.

The following variables report the woman's weight for height as a percent of the median weight for different reference populations:

HWFWTHTPCTRMDHS (HA12) uses a DHS reference standard
HWFWTHTPCTRMFOG (HA12A) uses the Metropolitan Life or Fogarty reference standard

concept

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