Pesquisa Nacional Sobre Demografia e Saúde 1996

Brazil, 1996

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Reference ID

BRA_1996_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Sociedade Civil Bem-Estar Familiar no Brasil -BEMFAM

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Arm circumference (cms-1d) NA (v436)

Data file: REC42

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 56

End: 56

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Data on maternal anthropometry is only collected for mothers of children born in the three/ five years preceding the survey (months 0 to 59 before the survey). (V417 > 0).

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Notes

Upper arm circumference of the respondent in centimeters. There is one implied decimal place in the arm circumference (decimal points are not included in the data file). To produce the arm circumference in centimeters divide by 10.

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