The DHS Program User Forum
Discussions regarding The DHS Program data and results
Home » Topics » Child Health » About BMI of Mother (The covariate mother BMI)
Re: About BMI of Mother [message #29400 is a reply to message #29346] Tue, 11 June 2024 15:58 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Janet-DHS is currently offline  Janet-DHS
Messages: 904
Registered: April 2022
Senior Member
Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
You do not say what survey you are using, but usually the mother's BMI is v445 and it is included on the child's record. You do not need to do any merging. For children, the usual anthropometry measures are hw70, hw71, and hw72, from which the HAZ, WAZ, and WHZ are constructed. You can construct the BMI as weight divided by the square of height, rescaled with a factor that is a power of 10, but I would recommend using the Z scores. There have been several postings on the forum about how to get the HAZ (and a binary indicator of stunting) from hw70, etc.
 
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Previous Topic: Calculation of in utero, infant mortality, under_5 mortality, vaccination coverage & Birth Cohort
Next Topic: Immunization coverage - India 2019
Goto Forum:
  


Current Time: Sat Dec 14 10:37:25 Coordinated Universal Time 2024