Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986

Reference ID

SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., 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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Birth history index number (C_BIDX)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 124

End: 125

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

212. CHECK 211:

ONE OR MORE BIRTH. Now I would like to make a list of all your births, whether still alive or not, starting with the first one you had. RECORD THE NAMES OF ALL THE BIRTHS IN 212. RECORD TWINS AND TRIPLETS ON SEPARATE LINES.

IF NO BIRTHS, GO TO 220.

Value	Category
07	7
08	8
09	9
20	20
19	19
18	18
17	17
16	16
15	15
14	14
13	13
12	12
11	11
10	10
06	6
05	5
04	4
03	3
02	2
01	1

Description

Definition

BIDX reports the index number of the child in the mother's birth history, from 1 to n, where the nth birth is the mother's first birth, and 1 is the most recently born child. Up to 20 births could be reported by a woman. After asking "Now I would like to record the names of all your births, whether still alive or not, with the first one you had," the interviewer recorded each child's name in turn on successively numbered lines printed in the "Reproduction" section of the individual woman's questionnaire.

Combined with CASEID, BIDX uniquely identifies children within a sample. Combined with IDHSPID, BIDX uniquely identifies children across samples. Using these variables, data users can link IPUMS-DHS data to original DHS child-level and birth-level datasets.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Identifiers Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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