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

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Duration of abstinence (M8)

Data file: Child

Overview

Valid: 26964

Invalid: 77844

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 96

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 106

End: 107

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 98

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Have you begun to have sexual intercourse again since the birth of (NAME)? (IF YES) For how many months after the birth of (NAME) did you not have sexual intercourse?

Description

Universe

All children

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

If the response to the first question is no, then M8=96.

Others

Notes

code 96 used for Still abstaining, code 97 used for Inconsistent

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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008 Fifth Round