BREGKNOWHOW_ALL variables are 1-digit variables.
0 = No
1 = Yes
7 = Don't know
8 = Missing
9 = NIU (not in universe)
Description
BREGKNOWHOW_ALL indicates whether the respondent knows how to register the child's birth with the state.
BREGKNOWHOW_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (BREGKNOWHOW_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., BREGKNOWHOW_02, BREGKNOWHOW_03, BREGKNOWHOW_04, BREGKNOWHOW_05, and BREGKNOWHOW_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If BREGKNOWHOW_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.
Information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then BREGKNOWHOW_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.
Comparability — Index
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Comparability
Aside from universe differences and slight differences in question wording, BREGKNOWHOW_ALL is largely comparable across samples.
Comparability - Standard DHS
BREGKNOWHOW_ALL is a country-specific variable, and it is not included in phase of the standard DHS questionnaire.
Comparability — Namibia [top]
The 2000 Namibia survey asks, "Do you know a place where you can get your child's birth registered?"
Comparability — Tanzania [top]
The 1999 Tanzania survey asks, "Do you know where to go to register births?"
Universe
- Benin 2001: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, whose last-born child is still alive and whose birth certificate was not seen by the interviewer and whose birth was not registered with the government.
- Benin 2006: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, whose last-born child is still alive and whose birth certificate was not seen by the interviewer and whose birth was not registered with the government.
- Namibia 2000: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, whose last-born child is still alive and whose birth certificate was not seen by the interviewer and whose birth was not registered with the government.
- Senegal 2017: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, whose last-born child was weighed at birth, does not have a birth certificate, and whose birth was not registered with the government.
- Tanzania 1999: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, whose last-born child is still alive and does not have a birth certificate.
