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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
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Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
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Completeness of information: Date of birth (members under age 5) (H_BIRTHDATECOMPLT5)

Data file: GHA2008-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 540
End: 541
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
503. IF MOTHER INTERVIEWED, COPY MONTH AND YEAR FROM BIRTH HISTORY AND ASK DAY; IF MOTHER NOT INTERVIEWED, ASK: What is (NAME'S) birth date?

CHILD BIRTHDATE

DAY ___
MONTH ___
YEAR ___
Categories
Value Category
01 Month, year, and day reported
02 Month and year reported
03 Month and age reported, year imputed
04 Year and age reported, month imputed
05 Year reported, age and month imputed
06 Age reported, year and month imputed
07 Month reported, age and year imputed
08 Year and age reported, year ignored
09 All values imputed
90 No data from individual questionnaire
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
BIRTHDATECOMPLT5 (HC33) reports the completeness of information about the age and date of birth of household members under age 5 who were potential subjects for height and weight measurement.

concept

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