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Demographic and Health Survey 2017 - 2018

Albania, 2017 - 2018
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Reference ID
ALB_2017_DHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Institute of Public Health (IPH), National Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Jan 16, 2019
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Height: lying or standing (hw15)

Data file: REC44

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 71
End: 71
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Living children for variables HW1-HW12, HW14-HW73 (B5(HWIDX) = 1).
Categories
Value Category
0 Not measured
1 Lying
2 Standing
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.

Others

Notes
Whether the child was measured lying down or standing up. In DHS surveys, children aged less than 24 months are to be measured lying down, children age 24 months or older are to be measured standing up. There may, however, be a considerable discrepancy between policy and practice!
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