Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 1999

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Reference ID

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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Sep 19, 2018

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Age (M_AGEMN)

Data file: NGA1999-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 222

End: 223

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

106. How old were you at your last birthday?
COMPARE AND CORRECT 105 AND/OR 106 IF INCONSISTENT.

AGE IN COMPLETED YEARS _______

Categories

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94	94
95	95
96	96
97	97+
98	Missing

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

AGEMN (MV012) reports the man's age. DHS surveys collect information about the man's age through questions about age at last birthday and date of birth. DHS Recode Manuals provide the following information about how the AGE variable is calculated:

Current age in completed years is calculated from the century month code of the date of birth of the respondent (MV011) and the century month code of the date of interview (MV008). In a few cases the age in the data file will be different from that reported by the respondent when the respondent's birthday was in the month of interview, but he had not yet had his birthday. If the respondent correctly reported his age at his last birthday (and not his age at his next birthday) then the calculated age was rounded up from the reported age, to avoid inconsistencies between the age and the century month code for the birth.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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