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Enquête Démographique et de Santé 1998

Cameroon, 1998
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Reference ID
CMR_1998_DHS_v01_M
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population (BUCREP)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Body mass index for respondent (v445)

Data file: REC42

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 101
End: 104
Width: 4
Range: 1372 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Data on maternal anthropometry is only collected for mothers of children born in the five years preceding the survey (months 0 to 59 before the survey). (V208 > 0).
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.

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