Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2008

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Reference ID

EGY_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health [Egypt], E-Zanaty and Associates, and Macro International., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Sep 19, 2018

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Thinks FC important part of religious tradition (yes/no) (B_FCYNRELIG)

Data file: EGY2008-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 879

End: 879

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

918. Do you believe that the practice of female circumcision is required by religious precepts?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
2	No religion
0	Disagree
1	Agree
7	Don't know
8	Missing
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

FCYNRELIG (G118) indicates whether the woman agrees that female circumcision is required by her religion.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Beliefs about FC Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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