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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)
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Circumcision is required by religion (G118)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 18253
Invalid: 16343
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1184
End: 1184
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Do you believe that this practice is required by your religion?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No 12750
69.9%
1 Yes 3005
16.5%
8 Don't know 2498
13.7%
9 Missing 352
Sysmiss 15991
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
Women who have heard of circumcision (G100=1 or G101=1)
Source of information
Respondent
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