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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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Height for age percentile for respondents to women's survey (W_BIOFHTAPCT)

Data file: LSO2004-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2541
End: 2544
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
(42) HEIGHT (CENTIMETERS)

HEIGHT___ ___ ___. ___
Categories
Value Category
9995 Flagged cases
9998 Missing
9999 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
BIOFHTAPCT (V439) reports the respondent's height-for-age percentile, based on smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

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.

HEIGHTFEM (V438) reports the respondent's length or height as measured by DHS personnel.

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