Demographic and Health Survey 1993, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Burkina Faso, 1992 - 1993

Reference ID

BFA_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie [Burkina Faso] and Macro International Inc, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

Aug 23, 2018

Page views

30050

Sample-specific cluster number (W_CLUSTERNO)

Data file: BFA1993-W

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

CLUSTERNO (V001) reports the cluster number for the person's de facto residence.

According to the DHS Sampling Manual, "A cluster is the smallest geographical survey statistical unit for DHS surveys. It consists of a number of adjacent households in a geographical area. For DHS surveys, a cluster corresponds either to an [enumeration area], or a segment of a large [enumeration area]." The most recent census for a country, which divided all territory into enumeration areas to ensure full coverage of the population, often provides the sampling frame for a DHS survey.

CLUSTERNO is the variable indicating the primary sampling unit or PSU. It should be used along with the variable STRATA to account for the impact of the sample design clustering on the estimates of variance and standard errors.

See the notes on DHS webpage "Use sample weights" [URL omitted from DDI.] on variance estimation for additional information.

CLUSTERNO (V001) and HHNUM (V002) can be used to merge the women's individual recode file to the household recode file. See the DHS webpage Merging Datasets [URL omitted from DDI.] on variables to be used for linking data sets.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Identifiers Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

CLUSTERNO is an 8 digit variable.

Back to Catalog