Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1997

Reference ID

SEN_1997_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Prévision et de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et du Plan [Senegal] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Number of living biological children of male respondent (M_CHEBALIVEMN)

Data file: SEN1997-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 277

End: 278

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

302. How many boys do you have?
How many girls do you have?

NUMBER OF BOYS_____

NUMBER OF GIRLS_____

Categories

Value	Category
00	0
01	1
02	2
03	3
04	4
05	5
06	6
07	7
08	8
09	9
10	10
11	11
12	12
13	13
14	14
15	15
16	16
17	17
18	18
19	19
20	20
21	21
22	22
23	23
24	24
25	25
26	26
27	27
28	28
29	29
30	30
31	31
32	32
33	33
34	34
35	35
36	36
37	37
38	38
39	39
40	40
41	41
42	42
43	43
44	44
45	45
46	46
47	47
48	48
49	49
50	50
51	51
52	52
53	53
54	54
55	55
56	56
57	57
58	58
59	59
60	60
98	Missing
99	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

CHEBALIVEMN (MV218) reports the total number of surviving biological children fathered by the male respondent. The number reported in CHEBALIVEMN (MV218) is the sum of a series of variables reporting the total number of sons and daughters who are living at home and who are living away from home (MV202 to MV205 - SONSATHOMEMN, DAUSATHOMEMN, SONSAWAYHOMEMN, and DAUSAWAYHOMEMN).

The related variable CHEBMN (MV201) reports the total number of children ever fathered by the male respondent, regardless of survival status.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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