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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
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Reference ID
GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Metadata
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Created on
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
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  • GHA2008-B.dat
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  • GHA2008-H.dat
  • GHA2008-M.dat
  • GHA2008-W.dat

Number of own sons living at home (C_SONSATHOME)

Data file: GHA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 321
End: 322
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
203. How many sons live with you? And how many daughters live with you?
IF NONE, RECORD '00'.

SONS AT HOME ___
DAUGHTERS AT HOME ___
Categories
Value Category
00 0
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
13 13
99 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
SONSATHOME (V202) reports the number of sons to whom the woman has given birth who are currently living with her.

The related variable SONSAWAYHOME (V204) reports the number of sons to whom the woman has given birth and are still alive, but who are not currently living with her.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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