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Demographic and Health Survey 2014 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2014
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LSO_2014_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health [Lesotho] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Weight in kilograms (male household members) (H_HWMWEIGHT)

Data file: LSO2014-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 582
End: 585
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
245) WEIGHT IN KILOGRAMS:

KILOGRAMS_____
NOT PRESENT 99994 (GO TO 245 FOR NEXT MAN OR, IF NO MORE MEN, END INTERVIEW.)
REFUSED 99995
OTHER 99996
Categories
Value Category
9994 Not present
9995 Refused
9996 Other
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
HWMWEIGHT (HB2) reports the weight of adult male household members, as measured by DHS personnel. There is one implied decimal place in the weight. Dividing HWMWEIGHT by 10 will yield the man's measured weight in kilograms.

concept

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