Demographic and Health Survey 2016

South Africa, 2016

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Reference ID

ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Feb 05, 2019

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Feb 05, 2019

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Height: lying or standing (hw15)

Data file: REC44

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 12

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Living children for variables HW1-HW12, HW14-HW73 (B5(HWIDX) = 1).

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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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