Population and Housing Census 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 1987

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Reference ID

MWI_1987_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Births last year, surviving males (MW1987A_0431)

Data file: MWI1987-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 208

End: 208

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Women aged 10 years or older
[Questions P and Q were asked of women aged 10 years or more]

q. Live births occurred between September 1986 and [current] date

Still alive

_ _ Male
_ _ Female

Have died

_ _ Male
_ _ Female

Categories

Value	Category
0	0
1	1
2	2
3	3
9	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

Women aged 10 years or more
[Question (p) and (q) should only be asked to women age 10 years or older]

(q) Live births occurred from September, 1986 to date
(i) Still alive: Ask the woman the number of male and female live births she has had during the period from September 1986 to date and are still alive. Record the number of males births in column 52 and female births in column 53.

(ii) Have died: Ask the woman the number of male and female live births she has had during the period from September, 1986 to date but have since died. Record the number of such male and female births in column 54 and 55, respectively.

Note: You should make sure that you do not leave any columns from 42 to 55 blank for any woman aged 10 years or more. For instance where a woman has reported to have no children ever born alive under any specific column in question (p) or no live births under any specific column in question (q), you should record zeroes) and not leave the columns blank.

Description

Definition

This variable records the number of male children who were born in the last 12 months and are still alive.

Universe

Females age 10+

concept

Concept

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

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