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

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Circumcision is required by religion (Mg118)

Data file: Mens

Overview

Valid: 10588

Invalid: 6134

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 547

End: 547

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What benefits do girls themselves get if they are circumcised?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	7226	68.2%
1	Yes	2173	20.5%
8	Don't know	1189	11.2%
9	Missing	131
Sysmiss		6003

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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