Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS

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Mother still alive (CM2005A_MORTMO)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 301

End: 301

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="CM05A489 CM05A424">18. Survival of the mother <br />Is the mother 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="CM05A489 CM05A424"><span class="em">18. Survival of mother</span><br />This is a matter of knowing if the mother of the surveyed person is still alive or is deceased.<br /><div class="i1">Q. Is your mother/ ______'s mother 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>
<br /><svar v="CM05A423 CM05A424">N.B. This is regarding biological parents.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates that a person's mother 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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