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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004
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LSO_2004_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Weight for height percent of reference median (DHS) (female household members) (H_HWFWTHTPCTRMDHS)

Data file: LSO2004-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 334
End: 338
Width: 5
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
WEIGHT AND HEIGHT MEASUREMENT OF WOMEN 15-49

(41) WEIGHT (KILOGRAMS)

WEIGHT___ ___ ___. ___
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, HWFWTHTPCTRMDHS (HA12) reports the woman's weight-for-height as a percent of the median weight for a reference population of the same height. For this variable, the reference population was developed by the DHS Program. This index has been adjusted for pregnant women according to duration of pregnancy.

The following variables report the woman's weight for height as a percent of the median weight for different reference populations:

HWFWTHTPCTRMFOG (HA12A) uses Metropolitan Life or Fogarty reference standards
HWFWTHTPCTRMWHO (HA12B) uses WHO reference standards

concept

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