Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 1987

Reference ID

MLI_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

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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Child is a twin or single birth (W_KIDTWIN_ALL)

Data file: MLI1987-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 660

End: 660

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

213. What name was given to your first/next baby?
RECORD TWINS RECORD ON SEPARATE LINES AND REUNITE WITH A LINE ON THE LEFT.

NAME__

Value	Category
1	KIDTWIN_ALL available

Description

Definition

KIDTWIN_ALL (B0_x) reports whether the child is a twin (or born in a multiple birth) or is a singleton (single) birth.

KIDTWIN_ALL consists of a set of twenty separate variables, covering the most recent birth (KIDTWIN_01) up to the twentieth-most-recent birth (KIDTWIN_20) for a female respondent of childbearing age. If KIDTWIN_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

Information for this variable was collected on all births for a woman, up to a maximum of twenty. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to twenty births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 19 or 20 births). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 20 births and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then KIDTWIN_20 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
General maternal and infant health Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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