Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016

Reference ID

TZA_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania], Ministry of Health [Zanzibar], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Child has birth certificate (W_BIRTHCERT_ALL)

Data file: TZA2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1368

End: 1368

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

470A) Do you have a birth certificate for (NAME)? ASK TO SEE CERTIFICATE.

YES, OBSERVED 1
YES, NOT OBSERVED 2
NO 3

Value	Category
1	BIRTHCERT_ALL available

Description

Definition

BIRTHCERT_ALL indicates whether the respondent's child has a birth certificate.

BIRTHCERT_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (BIRTHCERT_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., BIRTHCERT_02, BIRTHCERT_03, BIRTHCERT_04, BIRTHCERT_05, and BIRTHCERT_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If BIRTHCERT_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

Information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then BIRTHCERT_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Birth records Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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