Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 2005

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Reference ID

GIN_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan [Guinea] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Main reason child's birth was not registered (second to last birth) (W_BNOTREGWHY_02)

Data file: GIN2005-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1093

End: 1094

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

425B. Why wasn't (NAME)'s birth declared to the state?

COST 1
DISTANCE 2
DELAY 3
WASN'T INFORMED 4
WASN'T NECESSARY 5
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ 6
DOESN'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
10	Not informed
11	Did not know it was necessary
12	Did not know where to register
20	Not necessary
30	Cost
31	Cost too high
32	Late (and did not want to pay fine)
33	Did not want to pay
34	Illegal charges from agents
40	Delay
50	Distance/too far
60	Duty of the father
70	Unable to register child
71	Child deceased
72	Child too young
73	Parents' ID not available
95	Birth certificate not given to parents
96	Other
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

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.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Birth records Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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