What Does Aid to Africa Finance ? 1970-1996

Africa, 1970 - 1996

Reference ID

AFR_1996_WDAAF_v01_M

Producer(s)

Shantayanan Devarajan, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop

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Apr 25, 2019

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Apr 25, 2019

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Mother alive (HL9)

Data file: hl

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Is (name's) natural mother alive?

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No
8	DK
9	Missing

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.

Question pretext

For children age 0-17 years ask HL9-HL12

Interviewer instructions

For all children under age 18, we want to know whether either of their own (natural) parents is listed in the Household Listing, and their survival status. This information can be used to measure the prevalence of orphanhood and child fostering in the population. For everyone age 18 and older, HL9-12 will be left blank. --- By 'natural' we mean the biological mother. In many cultures, people consider other people's children whom they are raising as their own, especially children of their husband or sisters, etc. You should be certain that the respondent understands that you are asking about the woman who gave birth to the child. Record whether or not the child's natural mother is still alive by circling the code corresponding to the response given. If the child's natural mother is not alive or if the respondent does not know, skip to HL11. Otherwise, continue to the question in the next column.

Description

Universe

De jure household members (usual residents) aged 0-17 (under 18)