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Demographic and Health Survey 2010-2011 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2010 - 2011
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SEN_2010_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD) [Sénégal], and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Weight for height percent of reference median (MetLife or Fogarty) (respondents to women's survey) (B_BIOFWTHTRMFOG)

Data file: SEN2010-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1106
End: 1110
Width: 5
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
205. WEIGHT IN KILOGRAMS:

KG _____

NOT PRESENT 99.94
REFUSED 99.95
OTHER 99.96
Categories
Value Category
99995 Flagged cases
99998 Missing
99999 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
BIOFWTHTRMFOG (V443) reports the respondent's weight-for-height as a percent of the median weight for a reference population of the same height. This variable uses the Metropolitan Life or Fogarty reference standard. This index has been adjusted for pregnant women according to duration of pregnancy.

The following variables report the respondent's weight for height as a percent of the median weight for different reference populations:
BIOFWTHTRMDHS (V442) uses a DHS reference standard
BIOFWTHTRMWHO (V444) uses the WHO reference standard

concept

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