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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2016
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Reference ID
NPL_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health, Nepal; New ERA; and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Length of following birth interval, in months (B_BIRTHINTPOSTMO)

Data file: NPL2016-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1434
End: 1436
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
215. On what day, month and year was (NAME) born? PROBE: When is his/her birthday?

DAY __
MONTH __
YEAR ____
Categories
Value Category
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 children born in the three to five years preceding the survey who are not the last-born, or twin of the last-born, child, BIRTHINTPOSTMO (B12) indicates the succeeding birth interval, or the length of time in months the child was born before the mother's next birth (or before the child's first younger sibling).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child demography core Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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