KIDAGEINFO_ALL (B10_x) variables are 2-digit variables.

1 = Month, year, and day complete
2 = Month and year complete
3 = Year and season
4 = Year, season, and age - month imputed
5 = Year and age - month imputed
6 = Year and age - year ignored
7 = Month and age - year imputed
8 = Year - age calculated, month imputed
9 = Year - age and month imputed
10 = Age - year calculated, month imputed
11 = Age - year and month imputed
12 = Month - age, year imputed
13 = None - all imputed
96 = Inconsistent
99 = NIU (not in universe)

Description

KIDAGEINFO_ALL (B10_x) reports the completeness of information about the child's age and date of birth.

KIDAGEINFO_ALL consists of a set of twenty separate variables, covering the most recent birth (KIDAGEINFO_01) up to the twentieth-most-recent birth (KIDAGEINFO_20) for a female respondent of childbearing age. If KIDAGEINFO_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 for a woman, up to a maximum of twenty births. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to twenty births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 19 or 20 births). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 20 births and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then KIDAGEINFO_20 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Comparability — Index

Comparability

Along with universe differences, KIDAGEINFO_ALL (B10_x) differs across samples in the degree of detail in the responses. See the Codes tab for more information.

Comparability - Standard DHS

KIDAGEINFO_ALL (B10_x) is a standard recode variable included in every phase of the DHS data.

Universe