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Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Angola, 2015 - 2016
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Reference ID
AGO_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) [Angola], Ministério da Saúde (MINSA) [Angola], Ministério do Planeamento e do Desenvolvimento Territorial (MINPLAN) [Angola] and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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May 14, 2020
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Child's age in days (members under age 5) (H_HWCAGEDAYS)

Data file: AGO2015-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 525
End: 528
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
103) What is (NAME)'s birth date?

DAY __
MONTH__
YEAR__
Categories
Value Category
9999 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
For household members under age 5 who were potential subjects for height and weight measurement, HWCAGEDAYS (HC1A) reports their age in days at the time of the household interview.

This information is useful for calculating malnutrition indicators such as height-for-age (stunting) and weight-for-age (underweight). The DHS Recode manuals report that the age in days is calculated from the century day code of the date of interview (HWCCDCMEAS (HC20)) minus the century day code of the date of birth of the young household member (HWCBIRTHCDC (HC32A)).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child biometrics, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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