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[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016
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Reference ID
IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Height for age percent of reference median (male household members) (H_HWMHTAPCTRM)

Data file: IND2015-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 601
End: 605
Width: 5
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
404) HEIGHT IN CENTIMETERS

CENTIMETERS___
REFUSED 9995
OTHER 9996
Categories
Value Category
99997 Flagged cases
99998 Missing
99999 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 male household members, HWMHTAPCTRM (HB6) reports the man'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 men age 18 and over, the value for 215 months (17 years, 11 months) is used, based on the assumption that men are fully grown by age 18.

HWMHEIGHT (HB3) reports the man's height as measured by DHS personnel.

The related variable HWMHTAPCT (HB4) reports the man'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
Male anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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