Sex, age, body weight and height of participants in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), cycles 1999-2000 to 2021-2023, aged 2 years and older. Used by the app to sample age, weight and height when the "NHANES" database is selected for variability simulations.
Format
A data frame with 101,400 rows and 5 columns:
- SEX
Sex: 0 = male, 1 = female.
- AGEMO
Age (months), derived from
AGEYR.- AGEYR
Age (years).
- WT
Body weight (kg).
- HT
Standing height (cm).
Source
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/Default.aspx.
Details
Demographics and body measures files were merged by participant
and only complete records were kept. Age is recorded in whole years, so
AGEMO is AGEYR * 12. See
data-raw/databases.R in the
GitHub repository
for the code.