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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 1998
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KEN_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Council for Population and Development [Kenya], Central Bureau of Statistics [Kenya], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Other live births in interval between last birth reported and date of interview (C_BIRTHSOTHER)

Data file: KEN1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 359
End: 359
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
211. Now I would like to record the names of all your births, whether still alive or not, starting with the first one you had.
RECORD NAMES OF ALL THE BIRTHS IN 212. RECORD TWINS AND TRIPLETS ON SEPARATE LINES.
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
0 No
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
BIRTHSOTHER (V237) indicates whether the woman had any other live births in the interval between the last reported birth and the date of the interview. The question for this variable verifies whether the woman omitted any births when reporting her birth record. Omitted births should be included in the final version of the birth history in the variable CHEB (V201).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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