Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2006

Reference ID

MLI_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante' (CPS/MS) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique du Ministere de l'Economie, de l'Industrie et du Commerce (DNSI/MEIC) [Mali], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

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

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

May 01, 2020

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

Data file: MLI2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1685

End: 1686

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

425B. Why wasn't the birth of (NAME) registered?

COST 1
DISTANCE 2
LATENESS 3
NOT INFORMED 4
NOT NECESSARY 5
OTHER (SPECIFY) __ 6
DOESN'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
10	Not informed
11	Did not know it was necessary
12	Did not know where to register
20	Not necessary
30	Cost
31	Cost too high
32	Late (and did not want to pay fine)
33	Did not want to pay
34	Illegal charges from agents
40	Delay
50	Distance/too far
60	Duty of the father
70	Unable to register child
71	Child deceased
72	Child too young
73	Parents' ID not available
95	Birth certificate not given to parents
96	Other
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	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

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

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child birth records Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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