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General Household Survey 1997

Nigeria, 1997 - 1998
Reference ID
NGA_1997_GHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
National Bureau of Statistics
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Mar 13, 2015
Last modified
Mar 29, 2019
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    NGA_1997_GHS_v01_M
    Title

    General Household Survey 1997
    Country
    Name Country code
    Nigeria NGA
    Study type

    Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
    Series Information

    The General Household Survey is a module of the National Integrated Survey (NISH). Other modules of the programme include the National Consumer Survey, the Labour Force Survey, the Family Planning Survey and the Rural Agricultural Sample Survey.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis
    • Household
    • Individual

    Version

    Version Description

    v01
    Version Notes

    The 1996-99 questionnaire were very similar in content and comparable.

    Scope

    Notes

    The survey covered the following topics:

    • Household demographic characteristics
    • Household enterprises
    • Household expenditure
    • Births in the last 12 months
    • Deaths in the last 12 months
    • Health facilities
    • Immunization for children under 1 year
    • Education
    • Employment
    • Unemployment
    • Water and sanitation
    • Children ever born by women ever married or aged 15 years and over

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    National Bureau of Statistics Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN)

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    1997-04-01 1998-03-02
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    National Bureau of Statistics Federal Government of Nigeria

    Data Access

    Citation requirements

    The use of this dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the identification of the Primary Investigator (including country name)
    • the full title of the survey and its acronym (when available), and the year(s) of implementation
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download (for datasets disseminated online)

    Example:

    National Bureau of Statistics. Nigeria General Household Survey (NGHS) 1997, Ref. NGA_1997_GHS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
    Deposit requirements

    National Bureau of Statistics

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_NGA_1997_GHS_v01_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
    Date of Metadata Production

    2015-02-25

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (February 2015)
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