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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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Ethnicity (Mv131)

Data file: Mens

Overview

Valid: 15460
Invalid: 1262
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 104
End: 105
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 11
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
What is your ethnic group?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Ekoi 232
1.5%
2 Fulani 1073
6.9%
3 Hausa 3376
21.8%
4 Ibibio 324
2.1%
5 Igala 277
1.8%
6 Igbo 1933
12.5%
7 Ijaw/ izon 672
4.3%
8 Kanuri/ beriberi 361
2.3%
9 Tiv 415
2.7%
10 Yoruba 2427
15.7%
11 Others 4370
28.3%
99 Missing 26
Sysmiss 1236
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.
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