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Demographic and Health Survey 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Burkina Faso, 2010
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BFA_2010_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD), Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances [Burkina Faso] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Weight for age percentile (CDC standards) (members under age 5) (H_HWCWTAPCT)

Data file: BFA2010-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 590
End: 593
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
205. WEIGHT IN KILOGRAMS:

KG _____

NOT PRESENT 9994
REFUSED 9995
OTHER 9996
Categories
Value Category
9997 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
For household members under age 5, HWCWTAPCT (HC7) reports their weight-for-age percentile, based on smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Low weight-for-age, or "underweight," is an indicator of chronic and/or acute malnutrition. The 5th percentile on growth charts has often been used as a screening cutoff to identify infants and children at greater nutritional and health risk.

HWCWEIGHT (HC2) reports the young household member's weight as measured by DHS personnel. The related variable AGEMOHHLT5 (HC1) reports age in months at the time of measurement.

For an alternative measure of wasting in terms of weight-for-age using the same reference population, see HWCWAZNCHS (HC8). HWCWAZNCHS reports the difference between the young household member's weight and the median weight of the CDC reference population of the same age and sex, expressed in units equal to one standard deviation of the reference population's distribution.

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