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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 2006
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NER_2006_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Vaginal area sewn closed for FC (C_FCINFIB)

Data file: NER2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1121
End: 1121
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
906. Did they somehow close the area your vagina?

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
For women who were circumcised, FCINFIB (G105) indicates whether their genital area was sewn closed during the procedure. Question wording varies across samples. See Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Own circumcision Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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