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National Family Health Survey 2015-2016

India, 2015 - 2016
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IND_2015_DHS_v01_M
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Age at first sex (imputed) (v531)

Data file: REC51

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 58
End: 59
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 Not had sex
97 Inconsistent
98 Don't know
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
Age at first sexual intercourse - imputed. This is the same as V525, except for respondents who reported that their first sexual intercourse was at the time of their union. For these cases, the age at first sex is taken from the age at first union. In cases where the age at first sex was inconsistent with the age at conception of the first child, but only by one year (V532= 3), the age at first sex was reduced by one year, consistent with the "Rule of one" applied in DHS I. Other cases flagged as inconsistent on variable V532 (codes 1, 2, 4, 5) are recoded as 97 (inconsistent). Cases coded 6 on V532 are not changed.
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