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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004
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Reference ID
LSO_2004_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Number of births in last 5 years (B_BIRTHSIN5YRS)

Data file: LSO2004-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 312
End: 312
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
215 In what month and year was (NAME) born?
PROBE: What is his/her birthday?

MONTH___ ___

YEAR ___ ___ ___ ___
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 8
7 7
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
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
BIRTHSIN5YRS (V208) reports the number of births the woman had in the five years prior to the survey. This statistic is calculated based on the total number of births in the 0 to 59 months prior to the month of the interview.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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