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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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Circumcision should continue or be stopped (G119)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 18286
Invalid: 16310
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1185
End: 1185
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Do you think that this practice should be continued, or should it be stopped?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Continued 3750
20.5%
2 Discontinued 12051
65.9%
3 Depends 1288
7%
8 Don't know 1197
6.5%
9 Missing 319
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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