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Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Afghanistan, 2015
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Reference ID
AFG_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistics Organization (CSO) [Afghanistan], Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) [Afghanistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Child's month of birth (Solar Hijri calendar) (C_KIDBIRTHMO_AF)

Data file: AFG2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1183
End: 1184
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
215. In what month and years was (NAME) born? PROBE: When is his/her birthday?

MONTH___
YEAR______
Categories
Value Category
01 Hamal
02 Sawr
03 Jawza
04 Saratan
05 Asad
06 Sonbola
07 Mizan
08 Aqrab
09 Qaws
10 Jadi
11 Dalvae
12 Hut
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
KIDBIRTHMO_AF (B1) reports the child's month of birth according to the Solar Hijri calendar. It is only available for the Afghan samples.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child demography core Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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