Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset
Malawi, 2004
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Birth history index number (C_BIDX)
Data file: MWI2004-C.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
169
End:
170
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
219. IF ALIVE: RECORD HOUSEHOLD LINE NUMBER OF CHILD (RECORD '00' IF CHILD NOT LISTED IN HOUSEHOLD)
LINE NUMBER __ (GO TO NEXT BIRTH, OR GO TO 221 FOR ALL BIRTHS AFTER FIRST BIRTH)
LINE NUMBER __ (GO TO NEXT BIRTH, OR GO TO 221 FOR ALL BIRTHS AFTER FIRST BIRTH)
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 07 | 7 |
| 08 | 8 |
| 09 | 9 |
| 20 | 20 |
| 19 | 19 |
| 18 | 18 |
| 17 | 17 |
| 16 | 16 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 14 | 14 |
| 13 | 13 |
| 12 | 12 |
| 11 | 11 |
| 10 | 10 |
| 06 | 6 |
| 05 | 5 |
| 04 | 4 |
| 03 | 3 |
| 02 | 2 |
| 01 | 1 |
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
BIDX reports the index number of the child in the mother's birth history, from 1 to n, where the nth birth is the mother's first birth, and 1 is the most recently born child. Up to 20 births could be reported by a woman. After asking "Now I would like to record the names of all your births, whether still alive or not, with the first one you had," the interviewer recorded each child's name in turn on successively numbered lines printed in the "Reproduction" section of the individual woman's questionnaire.
Combined with CASEID, BIDX uniquely identifies children within a sample. Combined with IDHSPID, BIDX uniquely identifies children across samples. Using these variables, data users can link IPUMS-DHS data to original DHS child-level and birth-level datasets.
Combined with CASEID, BIDX uniquely identifies children within a sample. Combined with IDHSPID, BIDX uniquely identifies children across samples. Using these variables, data users can link IPUMS-DHS data to original DHS child-level and birth-level datasets.
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Identifiers Variables -- TOPICS | IPUMS |