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Migration-related information
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I am wondering if someone could tell me the DHS country-year waves that contain information on migration. In particular, I am interested in region/province/district of previous residence. Alternatively, which country-year waves have information on region/province/district of birth?
IPUMS-DHS lets me check this easily but is not an exhaustive set.
Thank you. ]]>TB2019-11-29T15:56:50-00:00Re: Migration-related information
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survey search tool and search for "migration" in survey characteristics.]]>Bridgette-DHS2019-12-11T14:46:07-00:00Re: Migration-related information
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Thank you for the response. This is what I needed.
Is there a way to check the migration questions for all country-wave at once? See attached file for an example.
]]>TB2019-12-12T08:35:48-00:00Re: Migration-related information
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country specific question are usually coded the same as the questionnaire number but with starting with an S instead of a Q.
SH for household
S for individual woman
M for individual man
Also using IPUMS, you may want to search for country specific variables, anything starting with an SH, usually in the household.
Thank you!]]>Liz-DHS2019-12-20T15:16:33-00:00Re: Migration-related information
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Thank you so much for your response. This is extremely helpful.
Best,
Tushar]]>TB2019-12-23T13:10:50-00:00Re: Migration-related information
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I recently downloaded the DHS data for Colombia but I am struggling to find the migration variables. The variables v105 and v105a have only missing values, and I have not been able to find other variables related to migration, at least not in the VII version of the recode manual "DHS-VII Recode Manual", nor in the other versions. Your excel file suggests there are migration variables for Colombia, but I would like to know if these are the only two variables related to migration and why are they missing.
Q103 = V105: Previous place of residence
Q104 = V105A: Province/state lived before moved to place of interview
All the best,
Sergio Rivera
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Hi Sergio,
The past DHS survey in Colombia include a good number of variables related to migration. Variables SH22 to SH28 in the persons file (COPR72FL) can be of your interest. Also in the household file (COHR72FL) variable SH95_xx to SH106_xx are for international migration; xx in those variables is a number between 01 and 10 corresponding to person 1 and up to 10 persons in every household.
Please check the Colombian household questionnaire (available in our web page as part of the Colombian final report) to get a better understanding of those variables. That may also be true for previous DHS rounds in Colombia.