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Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 1987
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MLI_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Population pour le Developpement (CERPOD) de l'Institut du Sahel and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Birth history index number (C_BIDX)

Data file: MLI1987-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 116
End: 117
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
212. CHECK 211:

ONE OR MORE BIRTH:
Now I would like to make a list of all your births, whether still alive or not, starting with the first one you had.

RECORD THE NAMES OF ALL THE BIRTHS IN Q.212. RECORD TWINS AND TRIPLETS ON SEPARATE LINES
NONE (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.

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Identifiers Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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