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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Preceding birth interval (Hc63)

Data file: Person

Overview

Valid: 19894

Invalid: 136938

Minimum: 9

Maximum: 266

Mean: 36.622

Standard deviation: 19.973

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 249

End: 251

Width: 3

Range: 9 - 266

Format: Numeric

Description

Universe

All children listed in the household questionnaire who are younger than 60 months of age.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

Calculated from the birth history of the mother's questionnaire. If the mother was not interviewed, this is set to "missing". If the mother was interviewed, set to "notappl" if the child is first-born; otherwise, it is the number of months between this child's date of birth and the next-older child's date of birth.

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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008 Fifth Round