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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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Heard of fistula (W_FSHEARD)

Data file: NGA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1253
End: 1253
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1102. Have you ever heard of this kind of problem, such that a woman experiences a constant leakage of urine or stool from her vagina during the day and night?

YES 1 (GO TO 1110)
NO 2 (GO TO 1201)
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Missing
1 Yes
0 No
7 Don't know
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
FSHEARD indicates whether the woman had heard of fistula. Question wording varies across samples. See Comparability.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fistula, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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