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2011 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Greece, 2011
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GRC_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Hellenic Statistical Authority, El.STAT., IPUMS
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Sep 03, 2025
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Number of children born alive (GR2011A_CHBORN)

Data file: GRC2011_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 274
End: 275
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">[Only for females age 10 and over]</span>
<br /><span class="em">Those born dead should not be included.</span></p>

<p>21. How many children have you ever born alive?</p>

<p>Number of children: _ _
Categories
Value Category
00 No children
01 1 child
02 2 children
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11+
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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="em">Question 21 "How many children have you ever born alive?"</span> Question to ask only from females. Do not include stillborn. This question will be asked of all females 10 years and over, regardless of their marital status (unmarried, married, widowed, divorced, etc.). In the first sections of the question, you will write the number of children has given birth until today. If a woman has not given birth to children, she enters "00" in the boxes corresponding to the "number of children". In the following questions will be completed the year of birth of her first child and the birth of the last child.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the number of children that the respondent has ever born alive. Dead- born children are not included in this variable.
Universe
Greece 2011: Females age 10+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility and Mortality Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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