Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2008

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Reference ID

NGA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Height for age percent of reference median (female household members) (H_HWFHTAPCTRM)

Data file: NGA2008-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 489

End: 493

Width: 5

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

513. HEIGHT IN CENTIMETERS

CM. __.__

Value	Category
99997	Flagged cases
99998	Missing
99999	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For female household members, HWFHTAPCTRM (HA6) reports the woman'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 (CDC).

The reference standard contains data for children up to age 18. For all women age 18 and over, the value for 215 months (17 years, 11 months) is used, based on the assumption that women are fully grown by age18.

HWFHEIGHT (HA3) reports the woman's height, as measured by DHS personnel.

The related variable HWFHTAPCT (HA4) reports the woman'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
Female anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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