Demographic and Health Survey 2011-12 - IPUMS Subset

Côte d'Ivoire, 2011 - 2012

Reference ID

CIV_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministère de la Santé et de la Lutte contre le Sida (MSLS), Ministère d’État, Ministère du Plan et du Développement of the Institut National de la Statistique (INS) [Côte d'Ivoire] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Weight for height percent of reference median (MetLife or Fogarty) (respondents to women's survey) (B_BIOFWTHTRMFOG)

Data file: CIV2011-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1206

End: 1210

Width: 5

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

605) WEIGHT IN KILOGRAMS

KILOGRAMS____

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

Description

Definition

BIOFWTHTRMFOG (V443) reports the respondent's weight-for-height as a percent of the median weight for a reference population of the same height. This variable uses the Metropolitan Life or Fogarty reference standard. This index has been adjusted for pregnant women according to duration of pregnancy.

The following variables report the respondent's weight for height as a percent of the median weight for different reference populations:
BIOFWTHTRMDHS (V442) uses a DHS reference standard
BIOFWTHTRMWHO (V444) uses the WHO reference standard

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Female anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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