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Nepali child heath study
Description
The data are a subset from public health study on Nepalese children.
Format
A data frame with 1000 observations on the following 9 variables.
- id
There is a six digit code for the child's ID: 2 digits for the panchayat number; 2 digits for the ward within panchayat; 1 digits for the household; 1 digit for child within household.
- sex
1 = male; 2 = female
- wt
Child's weight measured in kilograms
- ht
Child's height measured in centimeters
- mage
Mother's age in years
- lit
Indicator of mother's literacy: 0 = no; 1 = yes
- died
The number of children the mother has had that died.
- alive
The number of children the mother has ever had born alive
- age
age of child
Source
West KP, Jr., LeClerq SC, Shrestha SR, Wu LS, Pradhan EK, Khatry SK, Katz J, Adhikari R, Sommer A. Effects of vitamin A on growth of vitamin A deficient children: field studies in Nepal. J Nutr 1997;10:1957-1965.