Third General Census of Population and Housing 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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Reference ID

CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

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

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Children born alive (CM2005A_0516)

Data file: CMR2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 295

End: 296

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Females 12 and above
[Questions 34-36 were asked of females age 12 and older.]

34. How many live births has she ever had?

_ _ Male
_ _ Female

Categories

Value	Category
0	0
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9
10	10
11	11
12	12
13	13
14	14
15	15
16	16
17	17
18	18+
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

34. Woman's name and number of live born children

Live births
Live births means all products of conception which, after expulsion or extraction from the mother's body, shows any sign of life, like crying, tears, breathing, heartbeat, motility, even if it only lived a few minutes after birth.

-Write down the name of the each woman age 12 or older respecting the order number of the registration rank of the first page of the questionnaire.

[Example omitted]

Q: Did ______ deliver a live baby?
If the answer is no:

-Mark in the reserved space 00 for the male sex and 00 for the female sex in Q. 34 and Q35

If the answer is yes:

-Ask the number of male births and the number of female births;
-Mark the number of children of male sex and the number of children of female sex declared in the reserved space.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the number of children borne alive to a woman.

Universe

Women aged 12+

concept

Concept

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

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