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Demographic and Health Survey 2011-12 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2011 - 2012
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BEN_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère du Développement, de l’Analyse Économique et de la Prospective, Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE) [Bénin] and IFC International., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Height for age percentile for respondents to women's survey (C_BIOFHTAPCT)

Data file: BEN2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1134
End: 1137
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
703) HEIGHT IN CENTIMETERS

CM______

ABSENT 99994
REFUSED 99995
OTHER 99996
Categories
Value Category
9995 Flagged cases
9998 Missing
9999 NIU (not in universe)
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.

Description

Definition
BIOFHTAPCT (V439) reports the respondent's height-for-age percentile, based on smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

The reference standard contains data for children up to age 18. For all women age 18 and over, the value for 215 months (17 years, 11 months) is used, based on the assumption that women are fully grown by age18.

HEIGHTFEM (V438) reports the respondent's length or height as measured by DHS personnel.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Female anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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