KIDALIVE_ALL variables are 1-digit variables.

0 = No, not alive
1 = Yes, alive
9 = NIU (not in universe)

Description

KIDALIVE _ALL (B5_x) indicates whether each birth reported by a woman of childbearing age is alive.

KIDALIVE_ALL consists of a set of twenty-one separate variables, covering the most recent birth (KIDALIVE_01) up to the twenty-first-most-recent birth (KIDALIVE_21) for a female respondent of childbearing age. If KIDALIVE_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births for a woman, up to a maximum of twenty-one. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to twenty-one births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 19, 20, or 21 births). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 21 births and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then KIDALIVE_21 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Comparability

Apart from universe differences, KIDALIVE_ALL (B5_x) has no comparability problems.

Comparability - Standard DHS

KIDALIVE_ALL (B5_x) is included in every phase of the standard DHS questionnaire.

Universe