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Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2015 - 2016
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Reference ID
MWI_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Statistical Office (NSO) [Malawi] and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Malawi regions, 2016 [GIS] (W_GEO_MW2016)

Data file: MWI2016-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 252
End: 252
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
104. Before you moved here, which (REGION) did you live in?

NORTHERN 01
CENTRAL 02
SOUTHERN 03
OUTSIDE OF MALAWI 96
Categories
Value Category
1 Northern
2 Central
3 Southern
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
GEO_MW2016 (V101_MW2016) indicates the region of Malawi where the respondent was interviewed. DHS units in the 2016 Malawi survey are equivalent to regions.

Other sample years have their own sample-specific geography variables. There is also an integrated variable, GEO_MW1992_2016, that provides spatially consistent units over time. Greater geographic detail for the Malawi 2016 sample can be found in GEOALT_MW2016.

A GIS map for GEO_MW2016 (in shapefile format) can be downloaded from the DHS Program Spatial Data Repository [URL omitted from DDI.] Boundaries page.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Single sample geography Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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