Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2006

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Reference ID

LSO_2006_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

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Mother alive (LS2006A_MOTHLIVE)

Data file: LSO2006_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 233

End: 233

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h2">Section B. List of household members </span></p>

<p>10. Is mother of (the respondent) alive?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No<br />[] 9 Don't know</div>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

<span class="h2">Part B of the questionnaire</span>
<br />For all persons</p>

<p>79. Column 9 and 10: Is natural mother/father still alive</p>
<div class="i1">Code l if natural mother/father is still alive. Code 2 if natural mother/father is dead. The question concerns the natural mother/father only, not social. Code 9 for DK</div>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person's mother is alive.

Universe

Lesotho 2006: All persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Fertility and Mortality Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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