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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008
Fifth Round

Nigeria, 2008
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Reference ID
NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Population Commission (NPC)
Metadata
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Mother has been very sick for 3+ months last year (Hv131)

Data file: Person

Overview

Valid: 8518
Invalid: 148314
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 48
End: 48
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Has (NAME)'s mother been very sick for at least 3 months during the past 12 months, that is she was too sick to work or do normal activities?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No 8246
96.8%
1 Yes 157
1.8%
8 Dk 115
1.4%
9 Missing 3553
Sysmiss 144761
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

Universe
All persons age 0-17 years whose natural mother is alive, but she is not listed in the household
Source of information
Head of Household
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