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Demographic and Health Survey 2013 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2013
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NGA_2013_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Ever heard of female circumcision (B_FCKNOW)

Data file: NGA2013-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1150
End: 1151
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1101) Have you ever heard of female circumcision, that is, a practice in which a girl may have part of her genitals cut, for example, excision of the clitoris and the labia minora, scraping of tissue surrounding the vaginal orifice (angurya cuts) or cutting of the vagina (gishiri cuts) and even use of corrosive substances or herbs in the vagina to tighten or narrow it or to cause bleeding?

Have you ever heard about any of these practices?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 1201)
Categories
Value Category
98 Missing
10 Yes
99 NIU (not in universe)
97 Don't know
00 No
11 Yes, spontaneous
12 Yes, prompted
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
FCKNOW (G100) indicates whether the woman had ever heard about female circumcision. Question wording and coding varies across samples. See Comparability.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Female circumcision general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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