Demographic and Health Survey 2015

Afghanistan, 2015 - 2016

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AFG_2015_DHS_v01_M

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Central Statistics Organization (CSO), Ministry of Public Health (MoPH)

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Current age of child (b8)

Data file: REC21

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 40

End: 41

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 38

Format: Numeric

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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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