Demographic and Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 1996

Reference ID

BEN_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministère du Plan, de la Restructuration Économique et de la Promotion de l'Emploi, Institut National de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Économique, Bureau Central de Recensement [Bénin], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Child is twin or single birth (B_KIDTWIN)

Data file: BEN1996-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 957

End: 958

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

213) Were any of these births twins?

SINGLE 1
MULTIPLE 2

Categories

Value	Category
10	Single birth/not a twin
20	Twin or multiple
21	1st of multiple births
22	2nd of multiple births
23	3rd of multiple births
24	4th of multiple births
25	5th of multiple births
26	6th of multiple births

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.

Description

Definition

KIDTWIN (B0) reports whether the child is a twin (or born in a multiple birth) or is a single birth.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child demography core Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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