Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009

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Reference ID

LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Month of birth (members under age 5) (H_BIRTHMONTHLT5)

Data file: LSO2009-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 458

End: 459

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

203 IF MOTHER INTERVIWED, COPY MONTH AND YEAR FROM BIRTH HISTORY AND ASK DAY; IF MOTHER NOT INTERVIEWED, ASK: What is (NAME'S) birthday?

DAY ___ ___
MONTH ___ ___
YEAR ___ ___ ___ ___

Categories

Value	Category
01	January
02	February
03	March
04	April
05	May
06	June
07	July
08	August
09	September
10	October
11	November
12	December
96	Inconsistent
97	Don't know
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

BIRTHMONTHLT5 (HC30) reports the calendar month of birth of household members under age 5 who were potential subjects for height and weight measurement.

The complementary variable BIRTHYEARLT5 (HC31) reports the household member's calendar year of birth. BIRTHCMCLT5 (HC32) reports the century month code for the household member's date of birth.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child biometrics, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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