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

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

wgsData

Format

A data frame with 6 columns and 2338 rows.

Variable	Description
indicator	One of weight-for-age (waz), height-for-age (haz), or weight-for-height (whz) anthropometric indicators
sex	Sex of child (1 = Male; 2 = Female)
given	Variable to which standardisation is to be made. For waz and haz, given is age in months. For whz, given is height in cm
l	L component of the LMS method for normalising growth centile standards. L is the trend in the optimal power to obtain normality
m	M component of the LMS method for normalising growth centile standards. M is the trend in the mean
s	S 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