https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00003124
Anonymised datasets from two cluster-randomised controlled trials of child growth and development in India and Pakistan. The datasets cover outcomes for 12,674 and 12,383 infants; and 12,467 and 13,139 mothers (India and Pakistan respectively) at baseline and endline evaluations. Mothers gave informed consent to participate in a pragmatic, cluster-randomised trial in 24 health sub centre catchment areas in Rewari District, Haryana, India 2015-2017 and 20 union councils (clusters) in Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan 2014-2016. The datasets contains variables on intervention allocation and cluster code, socio-demographic information, feeding, growth, development, adherence outcomes, parent-child behaviours and details of the environment and social structures of the households.
This data dictionary contains a record of the full list of variables in the STATA database "SPRING_baseline_pakistan.dta"
| variable name | definition | values | label | comments |
| masked_childid | unique ID for each child (random, anonymised) | integer 1-8325 | ||
| sex | gender of child | 0 | female | |
| 1 | male | |||
| spring | spring intervention arm | 0 | control | |
| 1 | intervention | |||
| sectorcode | randomisation unit (geographical area) | integer 1-20 | ||
| vis_monthyr | year and month of date of visit | string | YYYY.MM (Y-year, M-month) | available for children in anthropometry survey |
| dob_monthyr | year and month of birth of child | string | YYYY.MM (Y-year, M-month) | |
| anth_age | age of child in months at time of anthropometry survey | integer | ||
| hasanth | is = to 1 if child has full anthropometry data | 1 | has anthro | |
| . | no anthro | |||
| stunted | child is <2 z-scores below average height-for-age | 0 | not stunted | |
| 1 | stunted | |||
| underweight | child is <2 z-scores below average weight-for-age | 0 | not underweight | |
| 1 | underweight | |||
| wasted | child is <2 z-scores below average weight-for-height (length) | 0 | not wasted | |
| 1 | wasted | |||
| _zlen | length for age z-score | number (2dp) | ||
| _zwei | weight for age z-score | number (2dp) | ||
| _zwfl | weight for height/length z-score | number (2dp) | ||
| noeduc | mother no education | 0 | some education | |
| 1 | no education | |||
| educ_levels_orig | mother's education level completed | 0 | no education | |
| 1 | primary | |||
| 2 | secondary | |||
| 3 | college | |||
| 4 | university+ | |||
| facdeliv | is = 1 if child delivered in a facility | 0 | not facility | |
| 1 | facility delivery | |||
| feed_agem | age of child in months at time of earlier feeding survey | integer | ||
| hasfeed | is = to 1 if child has feeding data (ANY) | 1 | has feeding | |
| . | no feeding | |||
| missfeed0_5 | is missing some feeding data (exclusive or initiation of breastfeeding) | 1 | missing data | |
| . | has data | |||
| initiated | breastfeeding initiated within first hour for this child? | 0 | no | |
| 1 | yes | |||
| exclbf | child exclusively breastfed yesterday? | 0 | no | |
| 1 | yes | |||
| solidsemibf | child had solid or semisolid food yesterday? | 0 | no | |
| 1 | yes |