Nigeria - General Household Survey-2007, Fourth Round

Reference ID

NGA-NBS-GHS-2007-v1.0

Year

2008

Country

Nigeria

Producer(s)

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) - Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN)

Sponsor(s)

National Bureau of Statistics - NBS - Funding
Central Bank of Nigeria - CBN - Funding

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Relationship to head (Relation)
File: Part B Persons in the Household

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-99

Valid cases: 85183
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 99

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Head	18024	21.2%
2	Spouse	15908	18.7%
3	Own child	45649	53.6%
4	Step child	502	0.6%
5	Grand child	2183	2.6%
6	Brother/sister	928	1.1%
7	Niece/nephew	503	0.6%
8	Brother/sister in law	378	0.4%
9	Parent	379	0.4%
10	Parent in law	64	0.1%
11	Other relatives	302	0.4%
12	Maid/nanny/house servant	115	0.1%
13	Non-relative	92	0.1%
99	Missing	156	0.2%

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.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

The Relationship of every member of the household to head of household?
1 head
2 spouse
3 own child
4 step child
5 Grand child
6 brother/sister
7 niece/nephew
8 brother/sister inlaw
9 parent
10 parent in law
11 other relative
12 maid/nanny/house servant
13 non-relative