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Enquête Démographique et de Santé 1996

Benin, 1996
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BEN_1996_DHS_v01_M
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Institut National de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Économique (INSAE)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Birth weight (kilos - 3 dec.) (m19)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 80
End: 83
Width: 4
Range: 1240 - 9999
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
9996 Not weighed at birth
9998 DK
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.

Others

Notes
Weight of child at birth given in kilograms with three implied decimal places (or grams with no decimal places). Children who were not weighed are coded 9996. In some countries, the birth weight was collected in grams, i.e. a total of four digits, whereas other countries collected the weight in kilograms to one decimal place, i. e. a total of two digits. In the latter case, the third and fourth digits are set to zeros. In a few countries, the weight was collected in pounds and/or ounces. F or these countries, the original weight variables are stored as a country-specific variable and this variable contains the weight converted to kilograms.
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