Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset
Egypt, Arab Rep., 1988
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- EGY1988-B.dat
- EGY1988-C.dat
- EGY1988-W.dat
Birth history index number (B_BIDX)
Data file: EGY1988-B.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
112
End:
113
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
211. Now I would like to talk to you about all of your births, whether still alive or not, starting with the first one you had.
RECORD NAMES OF ALL THE BIRTHS IN 213. RECORD TWINS ON SEPARATE LINES AND MARK WITH A BRACKET. IF THERE ARE MORE THAN SEVEN BIRTHS CONTINUE RECORDING THE NAMES ON THE NEXT PAGE. THEN ASK 214 THROUGH 219 AS APPROPRIATE FOR EACH BIRTH. AFTER RECORDING THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 214-219 FOR ALL THE BIRTHS THE WOMAN HAS HAD, GO TO 220.
RECORD NAMES OF ALL THE BIRTHS IN 213. RECORD TWINS ON SEPARATE LINES AND MARK WITH A BRACKET. IF THERE ARE MORE THAN SEVEN BIRTHS CONTINUE RECORDING THE NAMES ON THE NEXT PAGE. THEN ASK 214 THROUGH 219 AS APPROPRIATE FOR EACH BIRTH. AFTER RECORDING THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 214-219 FOR ALL THE BIRTHS THE WOMAN HAS HAD, GO TO 220.
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 07 | 7 |
| 08 | 8 |
| 09 | 9 |
| 20 | 20 |
| 19 | 19 |
| 18 | 18 |
| 17 | 17 |
| 16 | 16 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 14 | 14 |
| 13 | 13 |
| 12 | 12 |
| 11 | 11 |
| 10 | 10 |
| 06 | 6 |
| 05 | 5 |
| 04 | 4 |
| 03 | 3 |
| 02 | 2 |
| 01 | 1 |
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
BIDX reports the index number of the child in the mother's birth history, from 1 to n, where the nth birth is the mother's first birth, and 1 is the most recently born child. Up to 20 births could be reported by a woman. After asking "Now I would like to record the names of all your births, whether still alive or not, with the first one you had," the interviewer recorded each child's name in turn on successively numbered lines printed in the "Reproduction" section of the individual woman's questionnaire.
Combined with CASEID, BIDX uniquely identifies children within a sample. Combined with IDHSPID, BIDX uniquely identifies children across samples. Using these variables, data users can link IPUMS-DHS data to original DHS child-level and birth-level datasets.
Combined with CASEID, BIDX uniquely identifies children within a sample. Combined with IDHSPID, BIDX uniquely identifies children across samples. Using these variables, data users can link IPUMS-DHS data to original DHS child-level and birth-level datasets.
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Identifiers Variables -- TOPICS | IPUMS |