Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 1992

Reference ID

NAM_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Services [Namibia], Central Statistics Office [Namibia], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Upper arm circumference for age percent of reference median (C_HWARMAGEPCTRM)

Data file: NAM1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 852

End: 856

Width: 5

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

908) MID-UPPER ARM CIRCUMFERENCE (IN MILLIMETERS)

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

Description

Definition

For surviving children born under in the three to five years before the survey, HWARMAGEPCTRM (HW23) reports the child's arm circumference-for-age as a percent of the median arm circumference 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).

HWARMCIR (HW20) reports the child's upper arm circumference, as measured by DHS personnel.

The complementary DHS variable HWARMAGEPCT (HW21) reports the child's arm circumference-for-age percentile within the same reference population used in HWARMAGEPCTRM.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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