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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Months of abstinence (V537)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 9659

Invalid: 24937

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 97

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 647

End: 648

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 98

Format: Numeric

Description

Universe

Women not sexually active during the last 4 weeks (V536=2:3)

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

If V536=2 then V537=M9(1), elseif V536=3 then recoded from V529, else V537=notappl.

Others

Notes

0 used for max months, code 96 used for Before last birth, and code 97 used for Inconsistent, while code 98 used for Don't know

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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008 Fifth Round