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Demographic and Health Survey, 2003
Fourth Round

Nigeria, 2003
Reference ID
NGA-NPC-DHS-2003-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Population Commission (NPC)
Metadata
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Oct 18, 2010
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Total children ever born (V201)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 7620
Invalid: 365
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 189
End: 190
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 18
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Just to make sure that I have this right: you have had in TOTAL _____ births during your life. Is that correct?
Question post text
Sum answers to 203, 205, and 207, and enter total (questions correspond to V202 through V207). If none, record '00'.

Description

Universe
All eligible women
Source of information
Interviewer, but total checked at time of entry against number of entries in the birth history.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
Total children ever born
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