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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
Producer(s)
Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Unique cross-sample household identifier (W_IDHSHID)

Data file: ZAF1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 41
End: 60
Width: 20
Range: -
Format: character

Description

Definition
IDHSHID is an identifying number unique to a specific household in a given sample. It is a concatenation of SAMPLE, CLUSTERNO and HHNUM.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Identifiers Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
IDHSHID is a 19-character string variable.
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