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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
Last modified
Dec 02, 2013
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Size of child at birth (M18)

Data file: Child

Overview

Valid: 28185
Invalid: 76623
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 121
End: 121
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
When (NAME) was born, was he/she very large, larger than average, average, smaller than average, or very small?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Very large 5160
18.3%
2 Larger than average 7852
27.9%
3 Average 10732
38.1%
4 Smaller than average 2812
10%
5 Very small 1427
5.1%
8 Dk 202
0.7%
9 Missing 462
Sysmiss 76161
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 children
Source of information
Respondent
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