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Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986
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SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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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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Weight for height percent of reference median (CDC standards) (C_HWWTHTPCTRM)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 655
End: 659
Width: 5
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)__
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 surviving children born in the three to five years before the survey, HWWTHTPCTRM (HW12) reports the child's weight-for-height as a percent of the median weight in growth charts by height and sex developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Low child weight-for-height, or "wasting," is an indicator of acute malnutrition. The 5th percentile on growth charts has often been used as a screening cutoff to identify infants and children at greater nutritional and health risk.

HWWEIGHT (HW2) reports the child's weight as measured by DHS personnel. HWHEIGHT (HW3) reports the child's measured height in centimeters. The related variable KIDAGEMO (HW1) reports the child's age in months at the time of measurement.

For an alternative measure of child wasting in terms of weight-for-height using the same reference population, see HWWHZNCHS (HW11). HWWHZNCHS reports the difference between the child's weight and the median weight of the CDC reference population of the same height and sex, expressed in units equal to one standard deviation of the reference population's distribution.

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