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Enquête Démographique et de Santé 1996

Benin, 1996
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Reference ID
BEN_1996_DHS_v01_M
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Institut National de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Économique (INSAE)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Feb 26, 2013
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Height: lying or standing (hw15)

Data file: REC44

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 77
End: 77
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Lying
2 Standing
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
Whether the child was measured lying down or standing up. In DHS surveys, children aged less than 24 months are to be measured lying down, children age 24 months or older are to be measured standing up. There may, however, be a considerable discrepancy between policy and practice!
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