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Re: Calculating Undernutrition Indicators for Under-5 Children in Older surveys [message #28647 is a reply to message #28630] Tue, 13 February 2024 16:30 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Janet-DHS is currently offline  Janet-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

The older surveys that had anthropometry have hw5, hw8, and hw11  in the KR file instead of hw70, hw71, hw72.  Those variables were based on an earlier CDC standard rather than the current WHO standard.  (Those variables are still included in the data files but are hardly ever used.)

You should be able to find an HW file (the file name has "HW" in place of "KR") for such surveys.  You just have to merge it with the KR file from the same survey. Let us know if you have difficulty doing this.

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