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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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Ever heard of female circumcision (probed) (M_FCKNOWPROBEMN)

Data file: NER2006-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 645
End: 645
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
702. In certain countries there is a practice that involves cutting a part of the external genitals of girls. Have you heard of this practice?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 711)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
FCKNOWPROBEMN (MG101) indicates whether the man acknowledged having heard about female circumcision, after being provided with a description of the practice.

Men who did not answer "Yes" to FCKNOWMN (MG100), which asked about knowledge of female circumcision without defining the term, were generally asked to provide a response to FCKNOWPROBEMN.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Female circumcision general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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