Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-2016

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

TZA_2015_DHS-MIS_v01_M

Producer(s)

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Office of the Chief Government Statistician (OCGS)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Dec 16, 2016

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Current age of child (b8)

Data file: REC21

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 41

End: 42

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 36

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Living children (B5 = 1).

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Notes

Current age of the child in single years for all living children. In the DHS VII recode, B8 is
based on the CDC of day of interview and date of birth of child and now calculated as ((V008A – B18) / 30.4375) / 12, where 30.4375 = 3625.25 divided by 12 months. Then take the integer part to get completed years. In previous recodes that was calculated as the integer of V008 – B3) / 12.

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