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Second General Census of Population and Housing,1987 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1987
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CMR_1987_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Ministère du Plan et de l'Amenagement du Territoire, IPUMS
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Mother living (CM1987A_ALIVEMA)

Data file: CMR1987_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 199
End: 199
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="CM87A401 CM87A402 CM87A403 CM87A404 CM87A405 CM87A406 CM87A407 CM87A408 CM87A409 CM87A410 CM87A411"><span class="h2">[Questions on persons]</span><br /><br />[Ask to] residents (list all persons usually residing in the household, whether present or absent) and visitors (list all persons who do not usually reside in the household, but who spent the night preceding the interview in the household.<br /><br /><span class="em">The whole population</span><br />[Questions 1-14 were asked of all persons.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CM87A411">P14. Mother living<br /><div class="i1">Is [the respondent's] mother still living? Circle the appropriate number: 1-Yes, 2-No, or 3-Does not know.<br /><br />[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No<br />[] 3 Does not know</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
3 Unknown
9 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
This variable indicates whether the biological mother of each household member is alive.
Universe
Cameroon 1987: Persons in private households [Discrepancies: none]

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