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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2008
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NGA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Ever heard of female circumcision (probed) (M_FCKNOWPROBEMN)

Data file: NGA2008-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 780
End: 780
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
FGC02. In a number of countries, there is a practice in which a girl may have part of her genitals cut. Have you ever heard about this practice?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 901)
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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