Home / Central Data Catalog / NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-V1.0 / variable [F17]
central

Demographic and Health Survey, 2008
Fifth Round

Nigeria, 2008
Get Microdata
Reference ID
NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Population Commission (NPC)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Oct 18, 2010
Last modified
Dec 02, 2013
Page views
1966246
Downloads
121421

Father has been very sick for 3+ months last year (Hv132)

Data file: Person

Overview

Valid: 10776
Invalid: 146056
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 49
End: 49
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Has (NAME)'s father been very sick for at least 3 months during the past 12 months, that is he was too sick to work or do normal activities?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No 10474
97.2%
1 Yes 183
1.7%
8 Dk 119
1.1%
9 Missing 2848
Sysmiss 143208
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 father is alive, but he is not listed in the household
Source of information
Head of Household
Back to Catalog