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Demographic and Health Survey 2003 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2003
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GHA_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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FGC practiced in the community (B_FCNORM)

Data file: GHA2003-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 996
End: 996
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
820. In many communities, girls are also circumcised.
In your community, is female circumcision practiced?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
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
FCNORM indicates whether female circumcision was practiced in the woman's community.

concept

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