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Demographic and Health Survey 1993, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Burkina Faso, 1992 - 1993
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Reference ID
BFA_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie [Burkina Faso] and Macro International Inc, Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Weight for height percentile (CDC standards) (C_HWWTHTPCT)

Data file: BFA1993-C

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: 9998 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
9998 Flagged cases
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
For surviving children born in the three to five years before the survey, HWWTHTPCT (HW10) reports the child's weight-for-height percentile, based on smoothed percentile growth charts by height and sex developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Low child weight-for-height, or "wasting," is an indicator of acute malnutrition. The 5th percentile on growth charts has often been used as a screening cutoff to identify infants and children at greater nutritional and health risk.

HWWEIGHT (HW2) reports the child's weight as measured by DHS personnel. HWHEIGHT (HW3) reports the child's measured height in centimeters. The related variable KIDAGEMO (HW1) reports the child's age in months at the time of measurement.

For an alternative measure of child wasting in terms of weight-for-height using the same reference population, see HWWHZNCHS (HW11). HWWHZNCHS reports the difference between the child's weight and the median weight of the CDC reference population of the same height and sex, expressed in units equal to one standard deviation of the reference population's distribution.

concept

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