Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud 1991

Dominican Republic, 1991

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Reference ID

DOM_1991_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Instituto de Estudios de Población y Desarrollo (IEPD), Oficina Nacional de Planificacion (ONAPLAN)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Body mass index for respondent (v445)

Data file: REC42

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 145

End: 148

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).

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Notes

Body mass index (BMI), or Quetlet’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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