Demographic and Health Survey 2011-12 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2011 - 2012

Reference ID

BEN_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

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

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Height for Age percent of reference median for respondents to female survey (C_BIOFHTAPCTRM)

Data file: BEN2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1142

End: 1146

Width: 5

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

703) HEIGHT IN CENTIMETERS

CM______

ABSENT 99994
REFUSED 99995
OTHER 99996

Value	Category
99995	Flagged cases
99998	Missing
99999	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

BIOFHTAPCTRM (V441) reports the respondent's height-for-age as a percent of the median height for a reference population of the same age and sex. For this variable, the reference population was 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 of 215 months (17 years, 11 months) is used, based on the assumption that women are fully grown by age 18.

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

The related variable BIOFHTAPCT (V439) reports the respondent's height-for-age percentile relative to smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex, for the same reference population.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Female anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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