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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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Information given on respondent's date of birth (W_DOBINFORESP)

Data file: GHA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 263
End: 263
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
106. In what month and year were you born?

MONTH ____
DON'T KNOW MONTH 98

YEAR ____
DON'T KNOW YEAR 9998
Categories
Value Category
1 Month and year
2 Month and age, year imputed
3 Year and age, month imputed
4 Year and age, year ignored
5 Year only, age and month imputed
6 Age only, year and month imputed
7 Month only, age and year imputed
8 Season and year
9 None reported, all imputed
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
DOBINFORESP (V014) reports the completeness of information about the respondent's age and date of birth. A code of 0 indicates the month and the year were reported, and no data were imputed.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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