Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1998

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NER_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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CARE International [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Size of child at birth (subjective report) (W_BIRTHSZ_ALL)

Data file: NER1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1892

End: 1892

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

416) When (NAME) was born was s/he:

VERY LARGE 1
LARGER THAN AVERAGE 2
AVERAGE 3
SMALLER THAN AVERAGE 4
VERY SMALL 5
DON'T KNOW 8

Value	Category
1	BIRTHSZ_ALL available

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, BIRTHSZ_ALL (M18_x) indicates the size of child at birth, reported subjectively.

BIRTHSZ_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (BIRTHSZ_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., BIRTHSZ_02, BIRTHSZ_03, BIRTHSZ_04, BIRTHSZ_05, and BIRTHSZ_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If BIRTHSZ_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

This information was collected for all births within the reference period preceding the survey. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then BIRTHSZ_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

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Concept

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

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