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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child is twin or single birth (C_KIDTWIN)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 938
End: 939
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
215 Was that a single or multiple pregnancy?

SINGLE 1
MULTIPLE 2
Categories
Value Category
10 Single birth/not a twin
20 Twin or multiple
21 1st of multiple births
22 2nd of multiple births
23 3rd of multiple births
24 4th of multiple births
25 5th of multiple births
26 6th of multiple births
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
KIDTWIN (B0) reports whether the child is a twin (or born in a multiple birth) or is a single birth.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child demography core Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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