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Demographic and Health Survey 1989 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 1989
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KEN_1989_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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National Council for Population and Development [Kenya] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Ethnicity, Kenya (B_ETHNICITYKE)

Data file: KEN1989-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 203
End: 205
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
140. What is your ethnic group/tribe?

KALENJIN 01
KAMBA 02
KIKUYU 03
KISII 04
LUHYA 05
LUO 06
MERU/EMBU 07
MIJIKENDA/SWAHILI 08
SOMALI 09
OTHER (SPECIFY) _______ 10
Categories
Value Category
010 Kalenjin
020 Kamba
030 Kikuyu
040 Kisii
050 Luhya
060 Luo
070 Meru/Embu
071 Meru
072 Embu
080 Mijikenda/Swahili
090 Somali
100 Other groups
101 Taita/Taveta
102 Masai
103 Turkana
104 Kuria
105 Samburu
106 Pokomo
107 Iteso
108 Boran
109 Gabbra
110 Orma
111 Mbere
112 Rendille
120 Other, unspecified
998 Missing
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
ETHNICITYKE (V131KE) is a variable specific to Kenya that reports responses to a question about the woman's ethnic group/tribe. Responses to this variable differ across samples. See Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Ethnicity and religion Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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