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Demographic and Health Survey 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 2012
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GIN_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan [Guinea] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Thinks FC is legal (W_FCLEGAL)

Data file: GIN2012-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 990
End: 990
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1117a) Is female circumcision legal?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
FCLEGAL indicates whether the woman believes that female circumcision is legal in her country. Question wording and response categories vary across samples. See Comparability.

The related variable FCKNOWBAN indicates whether the woman knows of a law or a ban against female circumcision.

concept

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