Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1992

Reference ID

MDG_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Centre National de Recherches sur l'Environnement [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Age of child in months (C_KIDAGEMO)

Data file: MDG1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 728

End: 729

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

904. BIRTH DATE (FROM 103 FOR THE RESPONDENT; ACCORDING TO 215 FOR CHILDREN AND ASK FOR DATE OF BIRTH)

DAY ____
MONTH ____
YEAR ____

Categories

Value	Category
00	0
01	1
02	2
03	3
04	4
05	5
06	6
07	7
08	8
09	9
10	10
11	11
12	12
13	13
14	14
15	15
16	16
17	17
18	18
19	19
20	20
21	21
22	22
23	23
24	24
25	25
26	26
27	27
28	28
29	29
30	30
31	31
32	32
33	33
34	34
35	35
36	36
37	37
38	38
39	39
40	40
41	41
42	42
43	43
44	44
45	45
46	46
47	47
48	48
49	49
50	50
51	51
52	52
53	53
54	54
55	55
56	56
57	57
58	58
59	59
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

For surviving children born in the three to five years before the survey, KIDAGEMO (HW1) reports the child's age in months at the time of the mother's interview (and at the time of the height and weight measurement of the child). This information is useful for calculating child malnutrition indicators such as height-for-age (stunting) and weight-for-age (underweight). The DHS Recode manuals report that the child's age in months is calculated from the century month code of the date of interview minus the century month code of the date of birth of the child.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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