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Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1988
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EGY_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Council [Egypt] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Total number of births in month of interview (B_BIRTHSIN1MO)

Data file: EGY1988-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 281
End: 281
Width: 1
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.
Categories
Value Category
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
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.

Description

Definition
BIRTHSIN1MO (V210) reports the total number of births the woman had in the month of interview.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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