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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
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Total number of living children, truncated at 6+ (W_CHEBALIVETRUNC)

Data file: GHA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 345
End: 345
Width: 1
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
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6+
9 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
CHEBALIVETRUNC (V220) reports the woman's total number of living children (including current pregnancy), truncated at 6 or more children. This variable is a grouping of CHSURVPLUSPG (V219) truncated at 6+ children.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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