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Demographic and Health Survey 2018

Zambia, 2018 - 2019
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ZMB_2018_DHS_v01_M
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Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats), Ministry of Health
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Day of birth of child (hw16)

Data file: REC44

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 70
End: 71
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 98
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Living children for variables HW1-HW12, HW14-HW73 (B5(HWIDX) = 1).
Categories
Value Category
97 Inconsistent
98 Don't know
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
Day of birth of the child. This is used in conjunction with the date of measurement of the child to more finely calculate the age of the child in days when computing the anthropometric measures. This level of accuracy can be important in very young children. The age of the child calculated from the day of birth information is not used as a background characteristic for tabulations, but purely to produce a more accurate set of anthropometric indices.
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