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Demographic and Health Survey 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2000
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Reference ID
MWI_2000_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Statistical Office [Malawi] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Ethnicity, Malawi (W_ETHNICITYMW)

Data file: MWI2000-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 263
End: 264
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
118. What is your tribe or ethnic group?

CHEWA 01
TUMBUKA 02
LOMWE 03
TONGA 04
YAO 05
SENA 06
NKONDE 07
NGONI 08
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ 96
Categories
Value Category
01 Chewa
02 Tumbuka
03 Lomwe
04 Tonga
05 Yao
06 Sena
07 Nkonde
08 Ngoni
10 Other groups
11 Amanganja/Anyanja
12 Mang'anja
13 Lambya
14 Ndali
15 Nyanja
16 Other, unspecified
98 Missing
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
ETHNICITYMW (V131MW) is a variable specific to Malawi that reports responses to a question about the woman's tribe or ethnicity. The number of groups identified varied across samples. See Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Ethnicity and religion Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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