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Re: Nutritional status of women [message #23385 is a reply to message #23383] Wed, 01 September 2021 14:02 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
ChinweAU is currently offline  ChinweAU
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After I dropped the prgnant women and those with less than 2 month old birth, i categorised the BMI variable:

gen bmic=1 if bmi<18.5
replace bmic=2 if bmi>=18.5 & bmi<25
replace bmic=3 if bmi>=25 & bmi<30
replace bmic=4 if bmi>=30 & bmi<60
label define bmic 1"Underweight" 2"Normal" 3"Overweight" 4"Obese"
label values bmic bmic

When I ran the frequency of the categorized BMI, I am getting figures that are different from what is stated on the report. What did I not do right?

tab bmic [iw=wt]


bmic | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
Underweight | 1,670.6812 11.35 11.35
Normal | 8,912.747 60.54 71.89
Overweight | 2,703.0016 18.36 90.25
Obese | 1,436.16 9.75 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 14,722.59 100.00

 
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