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Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005
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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS
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Father still alive (CM2005A_MORTFA)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 300
End: 300
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CM05A488 CM05A423">17. Survival of the father<br />Is the father still alive?<br /><div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
8 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.
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="CM05A488 CM05A423"><span class="em">17. Survival of father</span><br />This is a matter of knowing if the father of the surveyed person is still alive or is deceased.<br /><div class="i1">Q. If your father/ ______'s father still alive?<br />-Mark in the proper space the code corresponding to the answer provided (1 = Yes, 2 = No, 3 = Don't know)</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates that a person's father is still alive.
Universe
Cameroon 2005: Residents of the household [discrepancies: type I 0.1%; type II none]

concept

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