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Enquête Démographique et de Santé 1999

Guinea, 1999
Reference ID
GIN_1999_DHS_v01_M
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Direction National de la Statistique et de l'Information (DNSI)
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Apr 25, 2019
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Number of families in household (NFAMS)

Data file: MWI1987-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 Vacant household
1 1 family
2 2 families
3 3 families
4 4 families
5 5 families
6 6 families
7 7 families
8 8 families
9 9 or more families
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
NFAMS is a constructed variable that indicates the number of families within each household. A "family" is any group of persons related by blood, adoption, or marriage. An unrelated individual within the household is considered a separate family. Thus, a household consisting of a widow and her servant contains two families; a household consisting of a large, multiple-generation extended family with no lodgers or servants would count as a single family.

NFAMS is constructed from information in RELATE (relationship to head) and from the constructed pointer variables SPLOC, MOMLOC, and POPLOC (location of spouse, mother, and father). See those variable descriptions for more detail.

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Constructed Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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