Demographic and Health Survey 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2001

Reference ID

MLI_2001_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante' (CPS/MS) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique (DNSI) [Mali], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Respondent's date of birth, in century months (W_DOBCMC)

Data file: MLI2001-W.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 250

End: 253

Width: 4

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

105. In which month and in which year were you born?

MONTH ____
DOESN'T KNOW MONTH 98

YEAR ___
DOESN'T KNOW YEAR 9998

Description

Definition

DOBCMC (V011) reports the century month code (CMC) for the woman's date of birth.

Century month codes (CMC) are particularly useful for checking the consistency of dates, calculating intervals between events, and imputing dates when the information for an event is missing or partially complete.

Century month codes (CMC) are calculated by multiplying by 12 the difference between the year of an event and 1900. The year 1900 was chosen as the reference period because all of the DHS-relevant events occurred during the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. The month of the event is added to the previous result.

CMC = (Year - 1900) * 12 + Month

For example, the CMC for June 2002 is:

CMC = (2002 - 1900) * 12 + 6 = 1230

In other words, 1,230 months have elapsed between January 1900 and June 2002. Starting with CMC figures, one can calculate the month and year using the following formulas:

Year = int( ( CMC - 1 )/12 ) + 1900
[int(x) is the integer part of x]
Month = CMC - ( ( Year - 1900 ) * 12 )

The information above is based on "Online Guide to DHS Statistics" (Rutstein and Rojas, 2006) [URL omitted from DDI.].

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

DOBCMC (V011) is a 4-digit variable.

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