Population Census 1972 - IPUMS Subset, Housing, Economic and Demographic Survey

Pakistan, 1972

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Reference ID

PAK_1972_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Population Census Organization

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Apr 22, 2011

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Total male births (pk73a_chbornm)

Data file: PAK1973-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 188

End: 189

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Children born
(For ever married women only)

How many sons?

23. Were ever born to you? _ _

24. Are still alive? _ _

Categories

Value	Category
0	0
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9 or more
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.

Interviewer instructions

8.3 Children ever born

Col 23. The following questions must be asked, the answer of which shall be entered in this column. "How many (total) boys were born to Mr. X/Y?"
Total boys means the boys which were born to a women during reproductive age (until the time of enumeration) the still births are not included in this question. The number which is written is this Col. will be only boys born alive irrespective of whether the boys were born during the current marriage or earlier marriages, whether they are alive at present or dead, and whether they were somewhere else at the time the entries were made.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the total male children born to the person.

Universe

Ever-married females

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Fertility and Mortality Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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