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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2005
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Reference ID
EGY_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Population [Egypt], National Population Council [Egypt], El-Zanaty and Associates, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Number of births in last 5 years (B_BIRTHSIN5YRS)

Data file: EGY2005-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 340
End: 340
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
215) In what month and year was (NAME) born?
PROBE: What is his/her birthday?
In what season was (NAME) born?

MONTH __ __
YEAR __ __ __ __
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 8
7 7
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
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
BIRTHSIN5YRS (V208) reports the number of births the woman had in the five years prior to the survey. This statistic is calculated based on the total number of births in the 0 to 59 months prior to the month of the interview.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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