Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1988

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GHA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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Ghana Statistical Service and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Child is a twin or single birth (W_KIDTWIN_ALL)

Data file: GHA1988-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 675

End: 675

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

211. Now I would like to talk to you about all of your births, whether still alive or not, starting with the first one you had. (RECORD NAMES OF ALL THE BIRTHS IN 212. RECORD TWINS ON SEPARATE LINES AND MARK WITH A BRACKET.)

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.

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Concept

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

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