Demographic and Health Survey 2011-12 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2011 - 2012

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

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Created on

Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Information given on respondent's date of birth (C_DOBINFORESP)

Data file: BEN2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 250

End: 250

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

102) In what month and year were you born?

MONTH______
DON'T KNOW MONTH 98

YEAR________
DON'T KNOW YEAR 9998

Categories

Value	Category
1	Month and year
2	Month and age, year imputed
3	Year and age, month imputed
4	Year and age, year ignored
5	Year only, age and month imputed
6	Age only, year and month imputed
7	Month only, age and year imputed
8	Season and year
9	None reported, all imputed

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

DOBINFORESP (V014) reports the completeness of information about the respondent's age and date of birth. A code of 0 indicates the month and the year were reported, and no data were imputed.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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