1991 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Botswana, 1991

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Reference ID

BWA_1991_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Central Statistics Office, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Number of children living elsewhere (BW1991A_CHLDLVELS)

Data file: BWA1991_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 201

End: 202

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h2">Section A</span></p>

<p><span class="em">(Fertility--females, 12 years and over)</span></p>

<p>16. How many children have been born alive by [the respondent]?</p>
<div class="i1">____</div><p>18. How many of these children are living elsewhere?</p>
<div class="i1">____</div>

Categories

Value	Category
00	0
01	1
02	2
03	3
04	4
05	5
06	6
07	7
08	8
09	9
10	10
11	11+
98	Unknown
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

<span class="em">Column A18: Children Living Elsewhere</span></p>

<p>How many of these children are living elsewhere?</p>

<p>In column A18 enter the number of children born to the woman who are not living with her at her usual place of residence.</p>

<p>In the sample questionnaire in paragraph 116, Anthony usually lives away at boarding school, and Anne also has a daughter who is living in South Africa. Therefore, two of her children are living away from her, and code 02 is entered in column A18. Thembe's only surviving child is married and lives in Swaziland, so 01 appears in column A18 for Thembe. Dashes are entered in this column for everyone else.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the number of the respondent's children living elsewhere.

Universe

Botswana 1991: Females age 12+ who have ever had children [discrepancies: type I trace; type II 9.3%]

concept

Concept

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

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