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Demographic and Health Survey 2016

Timor-Leste, 2016
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TLS_2016_DHS_v01_M
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General Directorate of Statistics (GDS)
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Current age of child (b8)

Data file: REC21

Overview

Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 39
End: 40
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 36
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Living children (B5 = 1).

Others

Notes
Current age of the child in single years for all living children. In the DHS VII recode, B8 is
based on the CDC of day of interview and date of birth of child and now calculated as ((V008A – B18) / 30.4375) / 12, where 30.4375 = 3625.25 divided by 12 months. Then take the integer part to get completed years. In previous recodes that was calculated as the integer of V008 – B3) / 12.
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