Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Burundi, 1987

Reference ID

BDI_1987_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Département de la Population du Ministère de l'Intérieur [Burundi], Insitute for Resrouce Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Weight for age percent of the reference median (CDC standards) (C_HWWTAPCTRM)

Data file: BDI1987-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 708

End: 712

Width: 5

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

802) INTERVIEWER:
SEE TABLE 1
FOR EACH LIVING CHILD, AGE 3 TO 36 MONTHS, RECORD THE ORDER NUMBER, THE BIRTH DATE, THE WEIGHT AND THE LENGTH.

RECORD THE NAMES STARTING WITH THE YOUNGEST CHILD.

ORDER NUMBER
NAME
MONTH OF BIRTH
YEAR OF BIRTH 19
WEIGHT IN KG
LENGTH IN CM
NOT MEASURED (SPECIFY REASON)

Value	Category
99998	Missing
99999	NIU (not in universe)
99997	Flagged cases

Description

Definition

For surviving children born in the three to five years before the survey, HWWTAPCTRM (HW9) reports the child's weight-for-age as a percent of the median weight for a reference population of the same age and sex. For this variable, the reference population was developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Low child weight-for-age, or "underweight," is an indicator of acute and/or chronic malnutrition,

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

The similar variable HWWTAPCT (HW7) reports the child's weight-for-age percentile relative to smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex, for the same reference population.

For an alternative measure of child stunting in terms of weight-for-age and using the same reference population, see HWWAZNCHS (HW8). HWWAZNCHS reports the difference between the child's height and the median weight of the CDC reference population of the same age 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 -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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