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Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Zimbabwe, 2015
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ZWE_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Child's age in days (members under age 5) (H_HWCAGEDAYS)

Data file: ZWE2015-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 535
End: 538
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
TRANSLATOR?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
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 household members under age 5 who were potential subjects for height and weight measurement, HWCAGEDAYS (HC1A) reports their age in days at the time of the household interview.

This information is useful for calculating malnutrition indicators such as height-for-age (stunting) and weight-for-age (underweight). The DHS Recode manuals report that the age in days is calculated from the century day code of the date of interview (HWCCDCMEAS (HC20)) minus the century day code of the date of birth of the young household member (HWCBIRTHCDC (HC32A)).

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child biometrics, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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