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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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Oct 18, 2010
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Mother/father dead or been very sick for 3+ months (Hv133)

Data file: Person

Overview

Valid: 79213
Invalid: 77619
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 50
End: 50
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 1
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Circle line number if child's mother and/or father has died (HV111 or HV113=no) or been sick (HV131 or HV132=yes)
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No 74185
93.7%
1 Yes 5028
6.3%
Sysmiss 77619
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 and/or father has died, or whose mother and/or father has been very sick for at least 3 months in the past 12 months
Source of information
Interviewer determines based on other responses

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
Mother/father dead or been very sick for 3+ months
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