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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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Sex of child (B4)

Data file: Child

Overview

Valid: 104808
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 31
End: 31
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Is (NAME) a boy or girl?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Male 53773
51.3%
2 Female 51035
48.7%
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

Universe
All children
Source of information
Respondent
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