Zscore06 command

[Cansu Oymak]

Hello Dear Statalist Users,

Using zscore06 command, I have successfully calculated the height for age and weight for age Z scores of children aged 0-5. To do it, I have used Turkish DHS. However, I have a question. Even though zscore06 command is based on WHO 2006 standards, I have just thought that whether it's problematic because each country has its own average in height/wright. So, is it convenient to use zscore06 in DHS dataset?

thank you in advance.

[Jared Greathouse]

You're not new here, so you should know better to specify user written commands when you use them.

anyways, likely not. I'm not an epidemiogist or a doctor, but if it's based on WHO's standards, then this shouldn't be an issue since it's a global standard- you'd really run into issues if you used the specific standards of each county instead of a more globally accepted metric. But I would email the author if I were you. Seems like a specialized question