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SONSDIED_GH
Number of own sons who have died (IPUMS Global Health)
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Description

SONSDIED _GH reports the number of the respondent's sons who have died.
This variable is consistently codes across the IPUMS Global Health projects from the project specific variables:

IPUMS DHS: SONSDIED
IPUMS MICS: DIEDSON
IPUMS PMA: SONSDIED

Found on the Women unit of analysis (IPUMS MICS and IPUMS DHS) and the Family Planning-Person unit of analysis (IPUMS PMA).

Comparability

To create a common universe across the three projects, additional categories were created:

90 Women who never had a birth
91 Women who never had a child die


See the comparability sections and universe tab for each data collection in IPUMS Global Health for more information about country specific comparability issues.

Universe

  • Women age 15-49

Availability

  • Burkina Faso: 2016
  • Congo (Democratic Republic): 2017
  • Cote d'Ivoire: 2017
  • Ethiopia: 2017
  • Ghana: 2016-2017
  • India: 2017
  • Indonesia: 2016
  • Kenya: 2016
  • Niger: 2016-2017
  • Nigeria: 2017
  • Uganda: 2017