I think you ought to have followed up on Nick Cox's reference to the the UK
Stata Users group meeting. I think your problem may be directly solved if
you look at zanthro package on the web site:
http://www.rch.org.au/CEBU/works_in_progress.htm
The site includes ado files and associated lookup datasets to get z stats
(and therefore percentiles) for various anthropometric measures, including
bmi, by age and gender. I think it's all implemented through egen commands.
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rogge, Mary M" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:02 AM
Subject: RE: st: body mass index
> Thanks, Sarah, I made be able to modify it to tackle my problem. Thanks
> for responding.
> Mary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sarah A.
> Mustillo
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: body mass index
>
> Mary -
>
> This isn't exactly what you are asking for, but it may be helpful. This
> is
> a simple do-file that creates variables for overweight and obese based
> on
> the 85th and 95th percentiles on the CDC growth charts by age and sex.
> This do-file assumes you already have a variable for bmi in your dataset
>
> (bmi=wt/(ht*ht)):
>
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