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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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Type of place of previous residence (M_PREVRESTYPMN)

Data file: GHA2008-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 214
End: 215
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
103. Just before you moved here, did you live in a city, in a town, or in the countryside?

CITY 1
TOWN 2
COUNTRYSIDE 3
Categories
Value Category
10 City
11 Capital or large city
12 Other city
20 Town or countryside
21 Town
22 Countryside
23
24 Other specific responses
30 Other or abroad
31 Abroad
32 Separated camp
33 Tribal area
34 Informal settlement
39 Other, unspecified
98 Missing
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
PREVRESTYPMN (MV105) reports the type of place--city, town, countryside, or a site abroad--where the man lived just before moving to the current place of residence.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Migration Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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