Home / Central Data Catalog / GHA_2003_DHS_V01_M_V02_A_IPUMS / variable [H]
central

Demographic and Health Survey 2003 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2003
Get Microdata
Reference ID
GHA_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
Page views
109975

Preceding birth interval in months (members under age 5) (H_HWCBIRTHINTPREMO)

Data file: GHA2003-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 487
End: 489
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
215. In what month and year was (NAME) born?
PROBE: What is his/her birthday?

MONTH__
YEAR____
Categories
Value Category
998 Missing
999 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
For household members under age 5 who were potential subjects for height and weight measurement and were not a first-born child, HWCBIRTHINTPREMO (HC63) indicates the preceding birth interval, or the length of time in months the child was born after the mother's previous birth (i.e., after the child's first older sibling).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child biometrics, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
Back to Catalog