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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Height for age percent of reference median (female household members) (H_HWFHTAPCTRM)

Data file: LSO2009-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 395
End: 399
Width: 5
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
218 HEIGHT IN CENTIMETRES

CM ___ ___ ___.___

NOT PRESENT 9994
NOT PRESENT 9994
REFUSED 9995
OTHER 9996
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, HWFHTAPCTRM (HA6) reports the woman's height-for-age as a percent of the median height for a reference population of the same age and sex. For this variable, the reference population was developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

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 age18.

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

The related variable HWFHTAPCT (HA4) reports the woman's height-for-age percentile relative to smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex, for the same reference population.

concept

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