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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Ideal number of girls (V628)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 32596

Invalid: 2000

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 96

Mean: 12.106

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 674

End: 675

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 98

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many of these children would you like to be boys, how many would you like to be girls and for how many would the sex not matter?

Description

Universe

All eligible women

Source of information

Respondent

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

If V613=1:50, then literal question asked. Otherwise, V627=V613.

Others

Notes

code 93 used for God's will/ choice, code 94 used for Any number, and code 96 used for other, while code 98 used for Don't know

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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008 Fifth Round