Third General Census of Population and Housing 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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Reference ID

CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Minnesota Population Center

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Mother still alive (CM2005A_0489)

Data file: CMR2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 256

End: 256

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

18. Survival of the mother
Is the mother still alive?

[] Yes
[] No

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No
8	Unknown
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.

Interviewer instructions

18. Survival of mother
This is a matter of knowing if the mother of the surveyed person is still alive or is deceased.

Q. Is your mother/ ______'s mother still alive?
-Mark in the proper space the code corresponding to the answer provided (1 = Yes, 2 = No, 3 = Don't know)

N.B. This is regarding biological parents.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates that a person's mother is still alive.

Universe

Residents of the household

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Fertility and Mortality Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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