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Re: Creating weight for age, height for age and weight for height indicators [message #4189 is a reply to message #4186]

Tue, 14 April 2015 02:15

Reduced-For(u)m
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Registered: March 2013

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The anthropometric z-scores for children are already calculated for you in the dataset. The variable definitions can be found here:

http://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/DHSG4/Recode5DHS_23August 2012.pdf

Search for the "HW" variables in that document. Variable HW5, for instance, is child height-for-age z-score. There are also maternal anthropometric measurements.

You can also use the age of the child (HW1), gender (B4) and height in centimeters (HW3) and the Stata program "zscore06" which you can find online or directly through Stata. There are other programs that take the age, gender, and height/weight variables and calculate z-scores for you, at least one for every major stats program, and many are available for free on the web.

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		Creating weight for age, height for age and weight for height indicators By: Robert on Mon, 13 April 2015 14:44
		Re: Creating weight for age, height for age and weight for height indicators By: Reduced-For(u)m on Tue, 14 April 2015 02:15
		Re: Creating weight for age, height for age and weight for height indicators By: Robert on Tue, 14 April 2015 02:19

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