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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Day of birth (members under age 5) (H_HWCDAYOFBIRTH)

Data file: ZAF2016-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 566
End: 567
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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27 27
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96 Inconsistent
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 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, HWCDAYOFBIRTH (HC16) reports the day of the month on which the child was born.

The DHS recode manuals report that the day of birth of the child

is used in conjunction with the date of measurement of the child to more finely calculate the age of the child in days when computing anthropometric measures. This level of accuracy can be important in very young children. The age of the child calculated from the day of birth information is not used as a background characteristic for tabulations, but purely to produce a more accurate set of anthropometric measures.

DHS analysis thus uses HWCDAYOFBIRTH and the date of the child's height and weight measurement to precisely calculate child malnutrition indicators such as height-for-age (stunting) and weight-for-age (underweight) Z-scores.

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