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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
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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Preceding birth interval in months (members under age 5) (H_HWCBIRTHINTPREMO)

Data file: LSO2004-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 403
End: 405
Width: 3
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
998 Missing
999 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
For household members under age 5 who were potential subjects for height and weight measurement and were not a first-born child, HWCBIRTHINTPREMO (HC63) indicates the preceding birth interval, or the length of time in months the child was born after the mother's previous birth (i.e., after the child's first older sibling).

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child biometrics, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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