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Child Nutritional Status in LMICs [message #15582] Wed, 15 August 2018 23:54 Go to next message
funkyola is currently offline  funkyola
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Thank you for previous assistance.

I want to derive child nutritional status by maternal factors for Nigeria, Burundi, and Angola. I merged PR+KR+IR files to derive stunting, wasting and underweight and derived whats in the DHS of each country. However, I got a different result when I computed my study outcomes by child's age and child's sex.

Please, how do I reproduce stunting, underweight and wasting by child's age and child's sex specifically table 11.1 in Nigeria DHS, Burundi DHS, and Angola DHS.

Is hw1_1 the right variable to use for the child's age in months? and b4_01 for child's sex?

I tried v008 - b3 and got ==" no variables defined"

PLS GUIDE ME.


Thank you

Re: Child Nutritional Status in LMICs [message #15626 is a reply to message #15582] Fri, 24 August 2018 16:44 Go to previous message
Liz-DHS
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Dear User, The Guide to DHS Statistics has a section on stunting and wasting, P144. Please look to The Guide to DHS Statistics for guidance on most DHS tabulations.
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