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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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Respondent's date of birth, in century months (Nepali calendar) (W_DOBCMC_NP)

Data file: NPL2016-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 264
End: 267
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
105. In what month and year were you born?

MONTH____
DON'T KNOW MONTH 98
YEAR ____
DON'T KNOW YEAR 9998
Categories
Value Category
9998 Missing
9999 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
Like DOBCMC, DOBCMC_NP reports the century month code (CMC) for the woman's date of birth. However, DOBCMC_NP is country-specific to Nepal, as the data are recorded using the Nepali calendar. For most other countries, the CMC data for the woman's date of birth are recorded using the Gregorian calendar. The Nepali calendar is roughly 57 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar.

For detailed information on the calculation and interpretation of CMC codes, see DOBCMC (V011).

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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