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

[Elizabeth Rainwater <erainwat@sfbrgenetics.org>]

Oops. Looks like the program for the under 5 standards is still using 
2005 data. The program and data for the 5-19 standards is labeled "WHO 
Reference 2007" though, so maybe there's hope for an update...

Elizabeth Rainwater wrote:

> 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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