india: Malnutrition of Children in India (DHS, 1998-99)
Description
Data sample from the Standard Demographic and Health Survey, 1998-99,
on malnutrition of children in India. The data set contains
approximately 12% of the observations in the original data set and
only a (very small) subset of variables. Additionally, a boundary
file representing the districts of India is provided for spatial analysis.
Usage
data(india)
data(india.bnd)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 4000 observations on the following 6 variables:
stunting
A numeric z-score for malnutrition, stunted
growth to be more precise, which ranges from -6 to 6, where
negative values represent malnourished children. Children with
values below -2 are considered stunted (height-for-age).
cbmi
BMI of the child.
cage
Age of the child in months.
mbmi
BMI of the mother.
mage
Age of the mother in years.
mcdist
The district in India, where mother and child live.
A factor encoded to match the map india.bnd.
mcdist_lab
The district in India, where mother and child live.
A factor with actual district names.
Details
For details on the boundary file see function read.bnd
from package BayesX.
References
For details on the data set see also:
Fahrmeir L and Kneib T (2011),
Bayesian smoothing and regression for longitudinal, spatial and
event history data, Oxford University Press.
# NOT RUN {if (require("BayesX")) {
## plot distribution of stunting in India drawmap(india, map = india.bnd, regionvar = "mcdist", plotvar = "stunting")
}
# }