Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997

Reference ID

MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Démographie et des Statistiques Sociales, Institut National de la Statistique [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Result of measurement of the respondent (C_BIOFWHYNOTMEAS)

Data file: MDG1997-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 873

End: 874

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1010. RESULT FOR MOTHER

MEASURED 1
ABSENT 3
REFUSED 4
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 6

RESULT FOR CHILDREN

CHILD MEASURED 1
CHILD SICK 2
CHILD ABSENT 3
CHILD REFUSED 4
MOTHER REFUSED 5
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 6

Categories

Value	Category
00	Measured
10	Not measured
11	Sick
12	Not present
13	Refused
14	Incapacitated
15	Technical problems
19	Other
20	No measurement found in household
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.

Description

Definition

BIOFWHYNOTMEAS (V447) indicates whether the respondent was measured for height and weight, or, if not, why she was not measured. All "Not measured" responses have a common first digit of "1," while the second digit reveals the reason (e.g., sick, not present, refused).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Female anthropometry Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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