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General Census of Population and Housing (1988) - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1988
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SEN_1988_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Census Bureau, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Number of fathers in household (NFATHERS)

Data file: SEN1988_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 160
End: 160
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 No fathers in household
1 1 father
2 2 fathers
3 3 fathers
4 4 fathers
5 5 fathers
6 6 fathers
7 7 fathers
8 8 fathers
9 9 or more fathers in household
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
NFATHERS is a constructed variable indicating the number of fathers -- of persons of any age -- within a household.

NFATHERS is constructed using the IPUMS-International pointer variable POPLOC (father's location in the household).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Constructed Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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