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Demographic and Health Survey 2011-12 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2011 - 2012
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Reference ID
BEN_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministère du Développement, de l’Analyse Économique et de la Prospective, Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE) [Bénin] and IFC International., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Aug 15, 2018
Last modified
May 14, 2020
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DHS-IPUMS-I Benin regions, 1979-2013 (C_DHS_IPUMSI_BJ)

Data file: BEN2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 235
End: 235
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Atacora and Donga
2 Atlantique and Littoral
3 Borgu and Alibori
4 Mono and Couffo
5 Ouémé and Plateau
6 Zou and Collines
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.

Description

Definition
DHS_IPUMSI_BJ provides geographic codes for Benin that match those in the DHS and IPUMS-International [URL omitted from DDI.] databases. This variable can be used to link contextual area data from IPUMS-DHS to IPUMS-International or vice versa. The codes in DHS_IPUMSI_BJ indicate the major administrative unit in which the household was enumerated or surveyed.

GIS shapefiles for Benin can be downloaded here [URL omitted from DDI.].

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
IPUMS International geography Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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