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Anthropometric measurement (Cambodia 2014) [message #17431] Sat, 16 March 2019 06:33 Go to previous message
charvey91 is currently offline  charvey91
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Hi,

I have been using the anthropometric information for children from the Cambodian DHS (2014). In the final report, the following is stated on page 8: "Children younger than age 24 months were measured lying down (recumbent length) on the board, whereas standing height was measured for older childrenn".. I am using a sample of children aged between 6-23 months so assuming that the previous statement is true, all children should have been measured lying down. However, upon inspection of hw15, it seems that a large proportion of children were also measured standing. Please can you clarify which information is true?

Many thanks
 
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