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Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 1999
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GIN_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan et de la Coopération [Guinea] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Disadvantages to girl of FC: Against religion (open-ended) (B_FCDISRELIG)

Data file: GIN1999-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 968
End: 968
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1019. What disadvantages are there for girls if they undergo this genital cutting?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS/HEALTH PROBLEMS A
PAIN B
PREVENTS WOMAN'S SEXUAL SATISFACTION C
PREVENTS MAN'S SEXUAL SATISFACTION D
AGAINST RELIGION E
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
NO DISADVANTAGES Y
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
In an open-ended question, women were asked to identify disadvantages of undergoing female circumcision. FCDISRELIG captures whether the woman mentioned "against religion" as a disadvantage to female circumcision.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Beliefs about FC Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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