Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

MWI_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Statistical Office (NSO) [Malawi] and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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Aug 23, 2018

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Where birth was registered (H_HHBIRTHCERTPLACE)

Data file: MWI2016-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 216

End: 216

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

21. IF QUESTION 20 WAS CODE 1 OR 2: Was (NAME)'s birth registered with the district commissioner, hospital, registrar general's office or the traditional village chief?

1 DISTRICT COMMISSIONER
2 HOSPITAL
3 REGISTRAR GENERAL
4 TRADITIONAL VILLAGE CHIEF
6 OTHER (SPECIFY)

Categories

Value	Category
1	District commissioner
2	Hospital
3	Registrar general
4	Traditional village chief
5	Other
7	Don't know
8	Missing
9	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

HHBIRTHCERTPLACE reports where the household member's birth was registered or where the person's birth certificate was obtained.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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