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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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Oct 18, 2010
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Country code and phase (V000)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 34596
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 16
End: 18
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
NG5 34596
100%
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

Definition
This variable is 3 characters in length; the first two characters correspond to the two-letter country code that uniquely identifies the country. The code is based on an international standard code. The third character indicates the format of the recode file used for the survey. For all surveys in MEASURE DHS+ following this standard for the DHS-V round, this code will be 5. For example: DR5 is the Dominican Republic, MA5 is Morocco, and ID5 is Indonesia.
Universe
All eligible women
Source of information
Set by the programmer during the recode.
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