Demographic and Health Survey 1998-99 - IPUMS Subset

Burkina Faso, 1998 - 1999

Reference ID

BFA_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie, Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances [Burkina Faso] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Main person making decision to circumcise daughter (W_FCDECIDER)

Data file: BFA1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 846

End: 847

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

915A. Who makes the decision to circumcise a girl?

MOTHER 1
FATHER 2
BOTH (MOTHER/FATHER) 3
AUNT 4
UNCLE 5
GRANDPARENTS 6
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ 7

Categories

Value	Category
10	Parents
11	Mother
12	Father
20	Aunt/Uncle
21	Aunt
22	Uncle
30	Grandparents
40	Other
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

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

FCDECIDER reports the person who makes the decision to circumcise the daughter, as indicated by the woman.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Daughter's circumcision Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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