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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 2005
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GIN_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan [Guinea] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Child has birth certificate or is registered with the state (C_BIRTHCERTREG)

Data file: GIN2005-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1299
End: 1299
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
425A. Does (NAME) have a birth certificate?
IF NO, PROBE: Was the birth of (NAME) declared to the civil state?

YES 1 (GO TO 426)
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8
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
BIRTHCERTREG indicates whether the child's birth has been registered with the government or whether the child has a birth certificate.

The interviewer first asked whether the child had a birth certificate, and if the response was "No," the interviewer then asked whether the child's birth had been registered with the state.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child birth records Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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