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Demographic and Health Survey 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Burundi, 2010
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BDI_2010_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Institut de Statistiques et d’Études Économiques du Burundi (ISTEEBU), Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Lutte contre le Sida [Burundi] (MSPLS), et ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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All woman factor for total population (C_AWFACTT)

Data file: BDI2010-C.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 180
End: 184
Width: 5
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Description

Definition
AWFACTT is a 5-digit variable (in IPUMS-DHS) with 2 implied decimal places that is used to create total population estimates for all women of childbearing age, for those samples interviewing only ever-married women. A post from DHS senior staff member Tom Pullum on the DHS Users Forum explains,

The all-woman factors are needed when you are trying to estimate something for all women, but you have to work with ever-married women because that's all you have in the sample. An example is when you want to estimate a fertility rate for all women but you only have the births and exposure for ever-married women. You have to assume that (a) never-married women have no births and (b) awfact/100 is a multiplier to inflate exposure for ever-married women to exposure for all women.

For surveys that used a sampling frame of all women of childbearing age, AWFACTT has a value of 100 (or 1.00, with two decimal places), and thus has no effect on the survey statistics when used as a multiplier. For samples that included only ever-married women, AWFACTT serves as a multiplier to create total population figures for all women of childbearing age, following the assumptions noted above.

The width of AWFACTT ranges from a low of 3 to a high of 5 in the original DHS files; see Comparability for further discussion.

concept

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

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
AWFACTT is a 5-digit numeric variable with 2 implied decimal places. See the variable description for directions on the use of AWFACTT.
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