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Demographic and Health Survey 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 2012
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NER_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Institut National de la Statistique (INS), Ministère des Finances [Niger] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Respondent had hymen cut (Dangouria) (B_FCHYMENCUT)

Data file: NER2012-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1110
End: 1110
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1005b) Did you undergo the practice in Dangouriya or did you have it performed on your daughter?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
9 NIU (not in universe)
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
FCHYMENCUT indicates whether the woman had experienced a circumcision procedure involving the Dangouria practice, a traditional practice in Niger of cutting the hymen membrane. Only women who affirmed that they had heard of Dangouria (in FCHEARDHYM) were asked this follow-up question.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Own circumcision Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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