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Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986
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Reference ID
SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Age at first period (W_AGEMENARCHE)

Data file: SEN1986-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 288
End: 289
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
220. How old were you when you had your first period?

YEARS ____

NOT YET MENSTRUATED 96 (GO TO 230)
REFUSED TO RESPOND 97
DOESN'T KNOW 98
Categories
Value Category
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+
95 Never menstruated
96 Inconsistent
97 Don't know
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
AGEMENARCHE reports the woman's age at the time of her first menstrual period.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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