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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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Relationship to head (Sh03)

Data file: Person

Overview

Valid: 156791
Invalid: 41
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 62
End: 63
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 98
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Head 34070
21.7%
2 Wife or husband 26197
16.7%
3 Son, daughter 77624
49.5%
4 Son-in-law, daughter-in-law 704
0.4%
5 Grandchild 6386
4.1%
6 Parent 1516
1%
7 Parent-in-law 162
0.1%
8 Brother, sister 3225
2.1%
9 Brother, sister-in-lawll 762
0.5%
10 Niece/nephew by blood 1991
1.3%
11 Niece/nephew by marriage 405
0.3%
12 Other relative 1764
1.1%
13 Adopted/foster/step child 732
0.5%
14 Not related 1250
0.8%
98 Dk 3
0%
99 Missing 18
Sysmiss 23
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

Definition
This is local variable which is country specific

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
Relationship to head
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