Demographic and Health Survey 1998-99 - IPUMS Subset

Burkina Faso, 1998 - 1999

Reference ID

BFA_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie, Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances [Burkina Faso] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Who performed respondent's circumcision (C_FCPERF)

Data file: BFA1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 817

End: 819

Width: 3

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

905. Who performed your circumcision?

DOCTOR 01
NURSE/MIDWIFE 02
MATRON 03
TRADITIONAL MIDWIFE 04
CIRCUMCISER 05
OTHER (SPECIFY) ______ 96
DOESN'T KNOW 98

Categories

Value	Category
999	NIU (not in universe)
998	Missing
997	Don't know
210	Traditional circumciser
200	TRADITIONAL
100	HEALTH PROFESSIONAL
130	Birth attendant
110	Doctor/physician
111	Male doctor
112	Female doctor
120	Trained nurse/midwife
121	Nurse
122	Midwife
190	Other health professional
211	Traditional male circumciser
212	Traditional female circumciser
213	Excisioner
220	Traditional birth attendant
230	Matronne/older woman
240	Traditional healer
241	Barber
242	Ghagaria (gypsy)
290	Other traditional
995	OTHER

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 women who are circumcised, FCPERF (G107) reports who performed the procedure. Responses vary considerably across samples. See Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Own circumcision Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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