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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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Child was registered at birth (C_BIRTHREG)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1296
End: 1296
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
425A Was the birth of (NAME) registered?

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
BIRTHREG (M59) indicates whether the child's birth was registered with the state.

The related variable BIRTHCERT indicates whether the child has a birth certificate.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child birth records Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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