Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986

Reference ID

SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center

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Child's height in centimeters (C_HWHEIGHT)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 642

End: 645

Width: 4

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

801. CHECK TABLE 1:
FOR EACH LIVING CHILD BORN BETWEEN APRIL '83 AND OCTOBER '85, (6 TO 36 MONTHS) RECORD THE LINE NUMBER, WEIGHT, HEIGHT AND BIRTH DATE.

FIRST AND LAST NAME__

LINE NUMBER__

BIRTH MONTH__

BIRTH YEAR 19__

WEIGHT IN KG __

HEIGHT IN CM__

NOT MEASURED(SPECIFY)__

Value	Category
9994	Not present
9995	Refused
9996	Other
9997	Out of range
9998	Missing
9999	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For surviving children born in the three to five years before the survey, HWHEIGHT (HW3) reports the child's height as measured by DHS personnel. HWHEIGHT values are reported in millimeters, to preserve one centimeter decimal place without requiring the use of a decimal point. Dividing HWHEIGHT by 10 will yield the child's measured height in centimeters.

In most surveys, HWHEIGHT was measured as a standing height for children at least 24 months old and as a recumbent length (with the child lying down) for children less than 24 months old, following WHO guidelines. As the DHS recode manuals note, however, there may be discrepancies between policy and practice with respect to this protocol. The related variable HWHTHOWMEAS indicates whether the child's height was measured as a recumbent length or a standing height, and is available for most surveys from Phase 2 forward.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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