Home / Central Data Catalog / NAM_2000_DHS_V01_M_V01_A_IPUMS / variable [B]
central

Demographic and Health Survey 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2000
Get Microdata
Reference ID
NAM_2000_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) [Namibia] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Jan 16, 2021
Last modified
Jan 16, 2021
Page views
82569

Ever had test for breast cancer (B_BRCANEXAM)

Data file: NAM2000-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 929
End: 929
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
485) Has a doctor or nurse ever felt your breasts to check for lumps that might be breast cancer?

YES 1
NO 2
DOES NOT KNOW/NOT SURE 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
BRCANEXAM indicates whether the woman has ever had a test for breast cancer.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Cancer Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
Back to Catalog