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Nepal Family Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 1996
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NPL_1996_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health [Nepal], New ERA, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child's height measured lying down or standing up (C_HWHTHOWMEAS)

Data file: NPL1996-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 957
End: 957
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
907. WAS LENGTH/HEIGHT OF CHILD MEASURED LYING DOWN OR STANDING UP?

LYING 1
STANDING 2
Categories
Value Category
0 Not measured
1 Lying down
2 Standing up
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
6 Inconsistent
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
HWHTHOWMEAS (HW15) reports whether the height of children under age 5 was measured when they were lying down or standing up. According to the DHS Recode Manuals:


In DHS surveys, children aged less than 24 months are to be measured lying down, children 24 months or older are to be measured standing up. There may, however, be a considerable discrepancy between policy and practice!

concept

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