Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1992

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Reference ID

EGY_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Population Council [Egypt] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Century month date of interview (C_INTDATECMC)

Data file: EGY1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 192

End: 195

Width: 4

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

NAME OF HOUSEHOLD HEAD _______________
ADDRESS IN DETAIL ______________
NAME OF WOMAN ______________
LINE NUMBER OF WOMAN ___________

GOVERNORATE ___
PSU/SEGMENT NO.___
HOUSEHOLD NO. ___
URBAN/RURAL ___
LOCALITY ___
LINE NUMBER ___

INTERVIEWER VISITS
DATE _____
TEAM _____
INTERVIEWER'S NAME _____
SUPERVISOR 'S NAME_____
RESULT ______
NEXT VISIT: DATE _____ TIME ________

FINAL VISIT: DAY ____ MONTH ____ YEAR ____
TEAM ____
INTERVIEWER _____
SUPERVISOR _____
RESULT _____
TOTAL NUMBER OF VISITS ___

Description

Definition

INTDATECMC (V008) reports century month code for the date on which the interview took place.

Century month codes (CMC) are particularly useful for checking the consistency of dates, calculating intervals between events, and imputing dates when the information for an event is missing or partially complete.

Century month codes (CMC) are calculated by multiplying by 12 the difference between the year of an event and 1900. The year 1900 was chosen as the reference period because all of the DHS-relevant events occurred during the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. The month of the event is added to the previous result.

CMC = (Year - 1900) * 12 + Month

For example, the CMC for June 2002 is:

CMC = (2002 - 1900) * 12 + 6 = 1230

In other words, 1,230 months have elapsed between January 1900 and June 2002. Starting with CMC figures, one can calculate the month and year using the following formulas:

Year = int( ( CMC - 1 )/12 ) + 1900
[int(x) is the integer part of x]
Month = CMC minus ( ( Year - 1900 ) * 12 )

The information above is based on "Online Guide to DHS Statistics" (Rutstein and Rojas, 2006). [URL omitted from DDI.].

The century month codes reported in INTDATECMC are calculated using the Gregorian calculator.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Survey dates Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

INTDATECMC (V008) is a 4-digit variable.

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