Demographic and Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 1996

Reference ID

BEN_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministère du Plan, de la Restructuration Économique et de la Promotion de l'Emploi, Institut National de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Économique, Bureau Central de Recensement [Bénin], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Code of person measuring children's height and weight (B_BIOMEASCODE)

Data file: BEN1996-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 880

End: 884

Width: 5

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1011) NAME OF MEASURER __________________________
NAME OF ASSISTANT __________________________

Value	Category
99999	NIU (not in universe)
99998	Missing
99997	Don't know
99996	Inconsistent
99995	No living children under 5

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the three to five years before the survey, BIOMEASCODE (V420) reports the code assigned to the person measuring their children's height and weight. Codes are sample-specific; a given numeric code in one sample refers to a different person than the same numeric code in another sample.

Using the measurer and assistant measurer (BIOASSTMEASCODE (V421)) codes, researchers can evaluate whether the quality of responses (e.g., the number of "out of range" cases) depended on the person measuring the children.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Female biometrics, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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