All anthropometry data

Malawi

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-All-anthro-data-2020-v1

Producer(s)

Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit

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Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets

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Nov 14, 2025

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Nov 19, 2025

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group age variable (D) (agegp)

Data file: all_anthro_data

Overview

Valid: 152782

Invalid: 1

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 116

End: 116

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	<1	21149	13.8%
2	1-4y	25369	16.6%
3	5-9y	22064	14.4%
4	10-14y	7317	4.8%
5	15-19y	10182	6.7%
6	20+y	66701	43.7%
Sysmiss		1

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

group age variable

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

recode age_y (0=1 "<1") (1/4=2 "1-4y") (5/9=3 "5-9y") (10/14=4 "10-14y") (15/19=5 "15-19y") (20/max=6 "20+y"), gen(agegp)

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