Demographic and Health Survey 1995 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1995

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Reference ID

EGY_1995_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Population Council [Egypt] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Tool used in daughter's circumcision (B_FCTOOLDAU)

Data file: EGY1995-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 771

End: 772

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

820. Do you know what tool was used in the circumcision?

SHARP BLADE/RAZOR 1
SCALPEL 2
SCISSORS 3
DON'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
10	Blade/razor
11	Own Blade/razor blade
12	Shared blade/razor
20	Scalpel
30	Other
31	Knife
32	Scissors
33	Other, unspecified
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	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

For women who have at least one circumcised daughter, FCTOOLDAU reports what tool was used to cut the daughter's genitals during female circumcision.

The related variable FCTOOL reports the type of tool used in the woman respondent's own circumcision.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Daughter's circumcision Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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