Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997

Reference ID

MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Démographie et des Statistiques Sociales, Institut National de la Statistique [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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Weight for height percent of reference median (DHS) (respondents to women's survey) (C_BIOFWTHTRMDHS)

Data file: MDG1997-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 846

End: 850

Width: 5

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1008. WEIGHT (IN KILOGRAMS)

KG ____

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

Description

Definition

BIOFWTHTRMDHS (V442) reports the respondent's weight-for-height as a percent of the median weight for a reference population of the same height. For this variable, the reference population was developed by the DHS Program. 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:
BIOFWTHTRMFOG (V443) uses Metropolitan Life or Fogarty reference standards
BIOFWTHTRMWHO (V444) uses WHO reference standards

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Female anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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