Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud 1990

Paraguay, 1990

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Reference ID

PRY_1990_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Centro Paraguayo de Estudios de Población

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Body mass index for respo - NA (v445)

Data file: REC42

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 110

End: 110

Width: 1

Range: -

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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