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Demographic and Health Survey 2013 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2013
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Reference ID
NAM_2013_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
The Nambia Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Ever had test for breast cancer (B_BRCANEXAM)

Data file: NAM2013-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1341
End: 1341
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1010R) Has a doctor or other health professional examined your breasts to detect or check for breast cancer?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 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
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