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Stunning, wasting and Underweight [message #992] Tue, 17 December 2013 04:59 Go to next message
pshanker2002 is currently offline  pshanker2002
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Hi

I was doing the calculation for nutritional status among children in India, from NFHS 3 data set in spss. I want to do crosstabs with the SES of mother and other back ground variables. While generating the univariates for these three variables, I am not getting the result as mentioned in the NFHS 3 report. I am confused, I would like to know how i need to do it. How do i recode these variables into categories. I am not sure whether one need to re code the variable.

after recoding the variable for wasted i am getting this table

Weight for height for those children below 3 years of age along with their anemia status

wasted in categories
(weight for height) Anemia level Total
Severe Moderate Mild Not anemic
% below -3 SD 22 382 184 127 716
3.1% 53.4% 25.7% 17.7% 100.0%
3.2% 3.9% 3.7% 3.2% 3.7%
% below -2 SD 106 1749 799 588 3246
3.3% 53.9% 24.6% 18.1% 100.0%
15.6% 18.0% 16.2% 14.6% 16.7%
% above -2SD 552 7609 3960 3299 15452
3.6% 49.2% 25.6% 21.3% 100.0%
81.2% 78.1% 80.1% 82.2% 79.6%
Total 680 9740 4943 4014 19414
3.5% 50.2% 25.5% 20.7% 100.0%
100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%



please help me in this regard
Re: Stunning, wasting and Underweight [message #1386 is a reply to message #992] Thu, 20 February 2014 14:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Liz-DHS
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Dear User,
We are researching an appropriate response for you.
Thank you!
Re: Stunning, wasting and Underweight [message #1391 is a reply to message #992] Thu, 20 February 2014 15:29 Go to previous message
Liz-DHS
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Dear User,
Can you please let us know specifically which table for NFHS 3 you are referring to? A page number and table number from the final report would be useful in order to assist you.
Thank you!
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