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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
DDI/XML JSON
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Oct 18, 2010
Last modified
Dec 02, 2013
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Weight at birth recall (M19a)

Data file: Child

Overview

Valid: 28647
Invalid: 76161
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 126
End: 126
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Was (NAME) weighed at birth? (IF YES) How much did (NAME) weigh?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Not weighed 21072
73.6%
1 From card 1586
5.5%
2 From recall 2653
9.3%
8 Dk 419
1.5%
9 Special answers 2917
10.2%
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.
Question post text
Record weight in kilograms from health card, if available.

Description

Universe
All children
Source of information
Respondent

Others

Notes
Children who were not weighed at birth are coded to 0.
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