Home / Central Data Catalog / SEN_2013_PHC_V01_M_V7.5_A_IPUMS / variable [P]
central

Grand Census 2013 of Population, Housing, Agruculture, Livestock, and Farming - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2013
Get Microdata
Reference ID
SEN_2013_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Agency of Statistics and Demography, IPUMS
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
Sep 03, 2025
Last modified
Sep 03, 2025
Page views
352

Sex (SN2013A_SEX)

Data file: SEN2013_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 277
End: 277
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">B. Individual characteristics</span></p>

<p><span class="em">The entire population</span>
<br />[Questions B01 through B10 were asked of all persons.]</p>

<p>B06. Sex</p>
<div class="i1">What is [the respondent]'s sex? Enter the corresponding code.<br />[] 1 Male<br />[] 2 Female</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Male
2 Female
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="h3">4.2. Part B: individual characteristics</span></p>

<p><span class="em">B06: sex</span>
<br />Record 1 for the male sex and 2 for the female sex.
<br /><span class="ital">NB: </span>Do not let the first name influence you. If the respondent is not the one who answers, always ask if it is a man or a woman. Some names can refer to a man as well as a woman.
<br />Example: Adama, Ardiouma, Magatte, Dominique, and so on. If you have any doubts about the sex, you can formulate the question in the following way:
<br /><span class="ital">''Just to reassure me, is X a man or a woman?''</span>
<br />For babies, always ask for their sex.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's sex.
Universe
Senegal 2013: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Back to Catalog