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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997
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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)
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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 ____
Categories
Value Category
99995 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
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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