Demographic and Health Survey 2007 - IPUMS Subset

Congo, Dem. Rep., 2007

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Reference ID

COD_2007_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministère du Plan [Democratic Republic of the Congo] et Macro International., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Main reason child's birth was not registered (W_BNOTREGWHY_ALL)

Data file: COD2007-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1168

End: 1168

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

425B) Why wasn't (NAME)'s birth declared to the state?

COST 1
DISTANCE 2
LATE 3
NOT INFORMED 4
NOT NECESSARY 5
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ 6
DON'T KNOW 8

Value	Category
1	BNOTREGWHY_ALL available

Description

Definition

BNOTREGWHY_ALL reports the main reason why the child's birth was not registered.

BNOTREGWHY_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (BNOTREGWHY_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., BNOTREGWHY_02, BNOTREGWHY_03, BNOTREGWHY_04, BNOTREGWHY_05, and BNOTREGWHY_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If BNOTREGWHY_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For most surveys, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period; exceptions in which data were collected on only the most recent birth(s) are noted in the comparability section. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then BNOTREGWHY_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS. Surveys in which the data were collected for only the most recent births are noted in the comparability section.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Birth records Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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