Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 2016

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Reference ID

UGA_2016_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Has a birth certificate (H_HHBIRTHCERT)

Data file: UGA2016-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 213

End: 214

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

IF AGE 0-4 YEARS

BIRTH REGISTRATION

20) Does (NAME) have a birth certification?
IF NO, PROBE: Has (NAME)'s birth ever been registered with the civil authority?

SHORT CERTIFICATE SEEN 1
LONG CERTIFICATE SEEN 2
BIRTH CERTIFICATE NOT SEEN 3
REGISTERED, NO CERTIFICATE 4
NOT REGISTERED 5
DON'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
13	Has hospital card only
12	Registered
11	Has certificate
10	Either has certificate or registered birth
99	NIU (not in universe)
98	Missing
97	Don't know
00	Neither certificate nor registered

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

HHBIRTHCERT (HV140) indicates whether the household member's birth is registered or whether the person has a birth certificate.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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