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Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 1999
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NGA_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Other live births in interval between last birth reported and date of interview (B_BIRTHSOTHER)

Data file: NGA1999-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 344
End: 344
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
215. In what month and year was (NAME) born?
PROBE: What is his/her birthday? OR: In what season was he/she born?

MONTH ______

YEAR ____
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
0 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.

Description

Definition
BIRTHSOTHER (V237) indicates whether the woman had any other live births in the interval between the last reported birth and the date of the interview. The question for this variable verifies whether the woman omitted any births when reporting her birth record. Omitted births should be included in the final version of the birth history in the variable CHEB (V201).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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