Demographic and Health Survey 2013

Namibia, 2013

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NAM_2013_DHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS)

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Weight at birth/recall (m19a)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Valid: 5046

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 20

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not weighed	372	7.4%
1	From written card	2576	51.1%
2	From mother's recall	1652	32.7%
8	Don't know	25	0.5%
9	Special answers	421	8.3%

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.

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Notes

Whether the weight at birth (variable M19) was recorded from a health card (code 1) or from the mother=s recall (code 2). Children who were not weighed at birth are coded 0.

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