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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2004
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CMR_2004_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de la Planification, de la Programmation du Développement et de l’Aménagement du Territoire [Cameroon] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Child was registered at birth (C_BIRTHREG)

Data file: CMR2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1442
End: 1442
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
425A) Was the birth of (NAME) declared to the civil state?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
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
BIRTHREG (M59) indicates whether the child's birth was registered with the state.

The related variable BIRTHCERT indicates whether the child has a birth certificate.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child birth records Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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