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Demographic and Health Survey 2013

Namibia, 2013
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Reference ID
NAM_2013_DHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Dec 24, 2014
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Body Mass Index (v445)

Data file: REC42

Overview

Valid: 5505
Invalid: 4513
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 13
Range: 1348 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
9998 Flagged cases
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.

Others

Notes
Body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet's index, for the respondent is defined as her weight in kilograms divided by the square of her height in meters (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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