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Demographic and Health Survey 1993, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Burkina Faso, 1992 - 1993
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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
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Aug 15, 2018
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Aug 23, 2018
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Average November precipitation (B_PRECIP_NOV)

Data file: BFA1993-B

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: -998 - -998
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
-998 Missing
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
PRECIP_NOV reports the average precipitation in millimeters, received within a 10 kilometer circular buffer around each DHS cluster location during November, averaged over the 1981-2016 timeframe. Other variables in this series report average precipitation for other months.

Please see the User Note on Using IPUMS-DHS Contextual Variables: Precipitation [URL omitted from DDI.] for the data source, methodology, and more detailed information about this variable. This variable, like the other IPUMS-DHS contextual variables, is based on sources outside The DHS Program, with values around DHS sample cluster points calculated by IPUMS-DHS staff.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Environmental Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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