World Health Organization (WHO) Growth Charts of Weight and Height for Age

Source: R/who0.R

Original CSV data files were manipulated into a more usable format.

who0

Format

who0

A data frame with 100 rows and 16 columns:

CHART

Growth chart label

VAR

Demographic variable (WTKG is weight in kg, HTCM is height in cm)

SEXF

Female sex indicator (0 is male; 1 is female)

AGEGRP

Age group bucket in months

L

Power in the Box-Cox transformation (calculation of VAR using age)

M

Median (calculation of VAR using age)

S

Generalized coefficient of variation (calculation of VAR using age)

P3

3rd percentile of the given VAR

P5

5th percentile of the given VAR

P10

10th percentile of the given VAR

P25

25th percentile of the given VAR

P50

50th percentile of the given VAR

P75

75th percentile of the given VAR

P90

90th percentile of the given VAR

P95

95th percentile of the given VAR

P97

97th percentile of the given VAR