Demographic and Health Survey 2006-2007 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2006 - 2007

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Reference ID

NAM_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) [Namibia] and Macro International Inc., 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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Century month date of interview (M_INTDATECMCMN)

Data file: NAM2006-M.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 181

End: 184

Width: 4

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

INTERVIEWER VISITS
FIRST VISIT:
DATE ____
INTERVIEWER'S NAME ____
RESULT ** _____
NEXT VISIT: DATE ____ TIME ___

SECOND VISIT:
DATE ____
INTERVIEWER'S NAME ____
RESULT** ____
NEXT VISIT: DATE ____ TIME ___

THIRD VISIT:
DATE ____
INTERVIEWER'S NAME ____
RESULT** ____

FINAL VISIT:
DAY ___
MONTH ___
YEAR 200__
INT. NUMBER ___
RESULT ___

Description

Definition

INTDATECMCMN (MV008) reports century month code for the date on which the interview with the male respondent took place.

Century month codes (CMC) are particularly useful for checking the consistency of dates, calculating intervals between events, and imputing dates when the information for an event is missing or partially complete.

Century month codes (CMC) are calculated by multiplying by 12 the difference between the year of an event and 1900. The year 1900 was chosen as the reference period because all of the DHS-relevant events occurred during the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. The month of the event is added to the previous result.

CMC = (Year - 1900) * 12 + Month

For example, the CMC for June 2002 is:

CMC = (2002 - 1900) * 12 + 6 = 1230

In other words, 1,230 months have elapsed between January 1900 and June 2002. Starting with CMC figures, one can calculate the month and year using the following formulas:

Year = int( ( CMC minus 1 )/12 ) + 1900
[int(x) is the integer part of x]
Month = CMC - ( ( Year - 1900 ) * 12 )

The information above is based on "Online Guide to DHS Statistics" (Rutstein and Rojas, 2006). [URL omitted from DDI.].

The century month codes reported in INTDATECMCMN are calculated using the Gregorian calculator.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Survey dates Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

INTDATECMCMN (V008) is a 4-digit variable.

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