Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 2006

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Reference ID

UGA_2006_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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Uganda Bureau of Statistics [Uganda] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Ever heard of female circumcision (W_FCKNOW)

Data file: UGA2006-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1157

End: 1158

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

643A) Have you ever heard about female circumcision? (A practise in which a girl may have part of her genitals cut).

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 643C)

Categories

Value	Category
98	Missing
10	Yes
99	NIU (not in universe)
97	Don't know
00	No
11	Yes, spontaneous
12	Yes, prompted

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

FCKNOW (G100) indicates whether the woman had ever heard about female circumcision. Question wording and coding varies across samples. See Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Female circumcision general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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