World Health Organization (WHO) Growth Reference (2006) data

wgsData

Format

A data frame with 6 columns and 2338 rows.

VariableDescription
indicatorOne of weight-for-age (waz), height-for-age (haz), or weight-for-height (whz) anthropometric indicators
sexSex of child (1 = Male; 2 = Female)
givenVariable to which standardisation is to be made. For waz and haz, given is age in months. For whz, given is height in cm
lL component of the LMS method for normalising growth centile standards. L is the trend in the optimal power to obtain normality
mM component of the LMS method for normalising growth centile standards. M is the trend in the mean
sS component of the LMS method for normalising growth centile standards. S is the trend in the coefficient of variation

Source

World Health Organization. WHO Child Growth Standards: Length/Height-for-age, Weight-for-age, Weight-for-length, Weight-for-height, and Body Mass Index-for age: Methods and Development. 1st ed. World Health Organization; 2006.

Examples

head(wgsData)
#> indicator sex given l m s #> 1 wfh 1 45.0 -0.3521 2.4410 0.09182 #> 2 wfh 1 45.1 -0.3521 2.4577 0.09176 #> 3 wfh 1 45.2 -0.3521 2.4744 0.09170 #> 4 wfh 1 45.3 -0.3521 2.4911 0.09164 #> 5 wfh 1 45.4 -0.3521 2.5078 0.09159 #> 6 wfh 1 45.5 -0.3521 2.5244 0.09153