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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1998
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NER_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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CARE International [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Reason FC is bad tradition: Medical complications (open-ended) (C_FCBTCOMP)

Data file: NER1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 859
End: 859
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
570) What do you mean by BAD TRADITION?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

AGAINST RELIGION B
MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS C
OWN PAINFUL EXPERIENCE D
AGAINST WOMEN'S DIGNITY E
PREVENTS SEXUAL SATISFACTION F
OTHER (SPECIFY): ___ X
DON'T KNOW Y
Categories
Value Category
0 Not mentioned
1 Mentioned
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
Women who said that female circumcision should be stopped because it is a "bad tradition" (FCBADTRAD) were asked a follow-up question to explain what was meant by bad tradition. FBTCOMP captures whether they mentioned the practice is a bad tradition because it leads to medical complications.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Beliefs about FC Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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