Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 1992

Reference ID

NAM_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Services [Namibia], Central Statistics Office [Namibia], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Ethnicity, Namibia (C_ETHNICITYNM)

Data file: NAM1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 262

End: 263

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

116) What is the main language spoken in your home?

ENGLISH 1
AFRIKAANS 2
OSHIVAMBO 3
DAMARA/NAMA 4
HERERO 5
KWANGALI 6
LOZI 7
TSWANA 8
SAN 9
GERMAN 10
OTHER (SPECIFY)_____ 11

Categories

Value	Category
01	Afrikaans
02	Damara/Nama
03	English
04	Herero
05	Kwangali (Kavango language)
06	Lozi (Caprivi language)
07	Oshiwambo
08	San
10	Other
11	Tswana
12	German
13	Subbia
90	Other
98	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

ETHNICITYNM (V131NM) is a variable specific to Namibia that reports the respondent's ethnicity, based on the main language spoken in the home. The groups identified vary slightly across samples. See Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Ethnicity and religion Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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