Enquête Démographique et de Santé 1997

Senegal, 1997

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Reference ID

SEN_1997_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Direction de la Prévision et de la Statistique (DPS), Division des Statistiques Démographiques

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Feb 26, 2013

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Body mass index for respond-NA (v445)

Data file: REC42

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 98

End: 98

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Data on maternal anthropometry is only collected for mothers of children born in the five years preceding the survey (months 0 to 59 before the survey). (V208 > 0).

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Notes

Body mass index (BMI), or Quetlet’s index, for the respondent is defined as her weight divided by the square of her height (W/H2). There are two implied decimal place in the BMI (decimal points are not included in the data file). To produce the BMI divide by 100. The BMI has not been adjusted for pregnant women.

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