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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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Father alive (H_FATHERALIVE)

Data file: EGY2005-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 180
End: 180
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
017) IF AGE 0-17 YEARS: Is (NAME)'s natural father alive?

QUESTION REFERS TO CHILD'S BIOLOGICAL FATHER.

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 019)
DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO 019)
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
For household members under a cut-off age (varying across samples), FATHERALIVE (HV113) indicates whether the person's father is still alive.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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