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Demographic and Health Survey 2016

Nepal, 2016 - 2017
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NPL_2016_DHS_v01_M
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Ministry of Health (MOH)
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Weight at birth/recall (m19a)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 90
End: 90
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 Not weighed
1 From written card
2 From mother's recall
8 Don't know
9 Special answers
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
Whether the weight at birth (variable M19) was recorded from a health card (code 1) or from the mother=s recall (code 2). Children who were not weighed at birth are coded 0.
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