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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2016
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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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Total births in last 3 years prior to interview (W_BIRTHSTOT3YR)

Data file: NPL2016-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 376
End: 376
Width: 1
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
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
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
BIRTHSTOT3YR (V238) indicates the total number of births the woman had in the 3 years (0 to 35 months) prior to the interview (where 0 is the month of interview). Responses are based on the woman's birth history table, which records the month and year of her children's births.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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