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

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Respondent's date of birth, in century months (W_DOBCMC)

Data file: BFA1993-W

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

DOBCMC (V011) reports the century month code (CMC) for the woman's date of birth.

Century month codes (CMC) are particularly useful for checking the consistency of dates, calculating intervals between events, and imputing dates when the information for an event is missing or partially complete.

Century month codes (CMC) are calculated by multiplying by 12 the difference between the year of an event and 1900. The year 1900 was chosen as the reference period because all of the DHS-relevant events occurred during the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. The month of the event is added to the previous result.

CMC = (Year - 1900) * 12 + Month

For example, the CMC for June 2002 is:

CMC = (2002 - 1900) * 12 + 6 = 1230

In other words, 1,230 months have elapsed between January 1900 and June 2002. Starting with CMC figures, one can calculate the month and year using the following formulas:

Year = int( ( CMC - 1 )/12 ) + 1900
[int(x) is the integer part of x]
Month = CMC - ( ( Year - 1900 ) * 12 )

The information above is based on "Online Guide to DHS Statistics" (Rutstein and Rojas, 2006) [URL omitted from DDI.].

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

DOBCMC (V011) is a 4-digit variable.

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