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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Country code and phase (Hv000)

Data file: HH

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 7

End: 9

Width: 3

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Country code and phase

Description

Definition

This variable is 3 characters in length; the first two characters correspond to the two-letter country code that uniquely identifies the country. The code is based on an international standard code. The third character indicates the format of the recode file used for the survey. For all surveys in MEASURE DHS+ following this standard for the DHS-V round, this code will be 5. For example: DR5 is the Dominican Republic, MA5 is Morocco, and ID5 is Indonesia.

Universe

All households

Source of information

Set by the programmer during the recode.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation