Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Afghanistan, 2015

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

Metadata

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Jan 16, 2021

Last modified

Jan 16, 2021

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Man's month of birth (Solar Hijri calendar) (M_BIRTHMOMN_AF)

Data file: AFG2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 214

End: 215

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

102. In what month and year were you born?

MONTH___
DON'T KNOW MONTH 98

YEAR_____
DON'T KNOW YEAR 9998

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

BIRTHMOMN_AF (MV009_AF) reports the man's month of birth, according to the Solar Hijri calendar. This variable is country-specific to Afghanistan.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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