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Population and Family Health Survey 1997

Jordan, 1997
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Reference ID
JOR_1997_DHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Department of Statistics (DOS)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Feb 26, 2013
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Rohrer's index for respondent (v446)

Data file: REC42

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 101
End: 104
Width: 4
Range: 970 - 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.

Others

Notes
Rohrer' s index for the respondent is defined as her weight divided by her height cubed (W/H3). There are two implied decimal place in the Rohrer' s index (decimal points are not included in the data file). To produce the Rohrer' s index divide by 100. The Rohrer' s index has not been adjusted for pregnant women.
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