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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004
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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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Other live births in interval between last birth reported and date of interview (B_BIRTHSOTHER)

Data file: LSO2004-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 345
End: 345
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
222 Have you had any live births since the birth of (NAME OF LAST BIRTH)?
IF YES, RECORD BIRTH(S) IN TABLE.

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
0 No
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
BIRTHSOTHER (V237) indicates whether the woman had any other live births in the interval between the last reported birth and the date of the interview. The question for this variable verifies whether the woman omitted any births when reporting her birth record. Omitted births should be included in the final version of the birth history in the variable CHEB (V201).

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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