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Demographic and Health Survey 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Burundi, 2010
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BDI_2010_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Institut de Statistiques et d’Études Économiques du Burundi (ISTEEBU), Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Lutte contre le Sida [Burundi] (MSPLS), et ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Height for age percentile (CDC standards) (members under age 5) (H_HWCHTAPCT)

Data file: BDI2010-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 558
End: 561
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
206) HEIGHT IN CENTIMETERS

CM _____
NOT PRESENT 99.94
REFUSED 99.95
OTHER 99.96
Categories
Value Category
9997 Flagged cases
9998 Missing
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, HWCHTAPCT (HC4) reports their height-for-age percentile, based on smoothed percentile growth charts by age and sex developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Low child height-for-age, or "stunting," is an indicator of chronic malnutrition,
The 5th percentile on growth charts has often been used as a screening cutoff to identify infants and children at greater nutritional and health risk.

HWCHEIGHT (HC3) reports the young household member's length or height as measured by DHS personnel. See this variable and HWCHTHOWMEAS (HC15) for specifics on length/height measurement. The related variable AGEMOHHLT5 (HC1) reports the young household member's age in months at the time of measurement.

For an alternative measure of stunting in terms of height-for-age for the same reference population, see HWCHAZNCHS (HC5). HWCHAZNCHS reports the difference between the young household member's height and the median height of the CDC reference population of the same age and sex, expressed in units equal to one standard deviation of the reference population's distribution.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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