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Demographic and Health Survey 2007 - IPUMS Subset

Congo, Dem. Rep., 2007
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Reference ID
COD_2007_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministère du Plan [Democratic Republic of the Congo] et Macro International., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Height for age standard deviations from the reference median (for respondents to female survey) (B_BIOFHTASDRM)

Data file: COD2007-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1081
End: 1084
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
518) HEIGHT IN CENTIMETERS

CM _____.__
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
BIOFHTASDRM (V440) reports the difference between the respondent's height and the median height of a reference population of the same age and sex, expressed in units equal to one standard deviation of the reference population's distribution. An anthropometry measure expressed in reference standard deviation units is also known as a Z-score. BIOFHTASDRM values are reported in units equal to 100 times the Z-score, to preserve two decimal places without requiring the use of a decimal point. Dividing BIOFHTASDRM by 100 will yield the height-for-age Z-score (HAZ) value.

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 complementary DHS variable BIOFHTAPCT (V439) reports the respondent's height-for-age percentile within the same reference population used in BIOFHTASDRM. The complementary DHS variable BIOFHTAPCTRM (V441) reports the respondent's height-for-age as a percentage of the median of the same reference population. Unlike z-scores, percentiles do not allow comparison across age and sex and cannot assess longitudinal change in growth status.

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