Demographic and Health Survey 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Burkina Faso, 2010

Reference ID

BFA_2010_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD), Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances [Burkina Faso] and ICF International., 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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May 14, 2020

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Line number of the head of household (H_HHEADLINENO)

Data file: BFA2010-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 143

End: 144

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

HOUSEHOLD SCHEDULE

01. LINE NUMBER:

LINE NO. _____

Value	Category
01	1
02	2
03	3
04	4
05	5
06	6
07	7
08	8
09	9
10	10
11	11
12	12
13	13
14	14
15	15
16	16
17	17
18	18
19	19
20	20
21	21
22	22
23	23
24	24
99	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

HHEADLINENO (HV218) reports the line number of the head of the household. According to the DHS recode manual:

This should always be 01; however, there are some households in certain surveys in which the head of household has not been listed as the first person in the household listing.

To determine the proportion of households (rather than persons in households) with a given characteristic (e.g., the share of households with electricity), researchers should restrict the sample of household members to one representative per household. Such restriction can be done by selecting only persons with line number 01 in the household roster (using HHLINENO) or selecting only persons coded as head of household in HHRELATE). HHEADLINENO demonstrates that these two criteria usually but not always identify the same person as a representative of the household.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Weights and subsample selection Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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