Anthro: Children anthropometric data

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Children anthropometric data

Description

The dataset comprises 985 observations and 8 variables on children aged 0-60 months from the Central-West region of Brazil. The data are a cleaned subset of the 2006 Brazilian National Demographic Health Survey of Women and Children (NDHS), a complex survey in which sampling units were selected in two stages: primary sampling units (PSUs) were census tracts, and secondary sampling units (SSUs) were households. Tract selection within each stratum was designed to ensure a minimum number of blood samples, given the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency in children. Outlier weights (> 30 kg) and rows with missing values have been removed.

Usage

data("Anthro")

Format

The data frame has the following components:

• wgt : weight

• hgt : height

• wgt_ind : weight-for-age index

• hgt_ind : height-for-age index

• ruc : rural-urban classification (urban = 1 and rural = 2)

• sex : factor with levels 0 (girl) and 1 (boy)

• age : age in months

• dweight : sampling weights

Source

The 2006 Brazilian National Demographic Health Survey of Women and Children (NDHS) was published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.

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