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Demographic and Health Survey 2010, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Malawi, 2010
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Reference ID
MWI_2010_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Statistical Office [Malawi] and ICF Macro, Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Aug 23, 2018
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Average October precipitation (M_PRECIP_OCT)

Data file: MWI2010-M

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_OCT reports the average precipitation in millimeters, received within a 10 kilometer circular buffer around each DHS cluster location during October, 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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