Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1988

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Reference ID

GHA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Woman's mother still alive at time of interview (W_MOMALIVE)

Data file: GHA1988-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 250

End: 250

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

510. Are your mother and father still alive?

WOMAN'S MOTHER

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

WOMAN'S FATHER

YES 1
NO 2
DK 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

MOMALIVE (V514) indicates whether the woman's mother was still alive at the date of the interview.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Marriage and cohabitation Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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