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XII General Population and Housing Census, 2000 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2000
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MEX_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Is last birth currently alive (MX2000A_LASTLIV)

Data file: MEX2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 422
End: 422
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="MX00A463 MX00A464 MX00A465 MX00A466 MX00A467 MX00A468 MX00A469 MX00A470 MX00A471">For women who are twelve years old or more<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MX00A468">36. Surviving children<br /><br />Is the last son or daughter that was born still alive? Circle only one answer.<br /><br /><div class="i1">1 Yes (Continue with the next person)<br />2 No</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Yes, last child is alive
2 No, last child is not alive
9 Unknown
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
<svar a="all" v="MX00A466 MX00A467 MX00A468 MX00A469 MX00A470 MX00A471"><span class="em">35. Data of birth, 36. Survival, and 37. Age at death</span><br /><br />[Depictions of these three questions on the enumeration form]<br /><br />With these questions you obtain the date of birth of the last daughter or son who was born alive, if this daughter or son is currently living and, if they've died, their age when they died.<br /><br />If, for the date of birth, the person only remembers the month but not the year, record a 9 in each of the boxes for month and year. If they remember the year but not the month, record the complete year and 99 in the boxes for month.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[P. 86]</span><br /><br />When the last daughter or son is deceased, ask their age at the time of death and only record one piece of information, whether it be in days, months, or years. If the informant doesn't remember at what age this daughter (son) passed away, record 99 in the boxes for days.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the last child born is still alive.
Universe
Mexico 2000: Females age 12+ who ever had a child [discrepancies: none]

concept

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