Re: st: Is there a new zanthro command for the new 2006 WHO growthreference standards?

[Elizabeth Rainwater <erainwat@sfbrgenetics.org>]

Hi.
The WHO has put together their own Stata, SAS, SPSS, and S-Plus 
programs, which they call macros, for z-scoring data to the new child 
growth standards. It's all available on their software page 
(http://www.who.int/childgrowth/software/en/). I have used both the 
under 5 child growth standards and the 5-19 year old height and bmi 
standards programs. I found them a bit clunky to use, but fairly well 
documented. You fill in your directory paths and variable names in their 
provided .do file. Then when you run the .do file, it sets all the 
variables needed for its .ado command and outputs the zscores in a .dta 
file and an excel file. It's not nearly as easy to use as the -zanthro- 
egen function, but it beats doing it by hand.
HTH,
Elizabeth


cbredenkamp@worldbank.org wrote:

> The zanthro command uses to the NCHS reference standard to create age- and
> sex-standardized z-scores for weight, height and BMI.
> Last year, the World Health Organization accepted a new set of growth standards
> for children under six.
>
> Do you know if anyone has developed a modification of the zanthro command that
> uses these new growth standards?
>
> Many thanks.
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