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Senegal, 1978 (WFS)

The following description of this survey appeared in the 1991 edition of Dynamic Database: A Catalogue of Survey Data Files, Voorburg: International Statistical Institute.

Basic Information

• Name of survey: Enquête Sénégalaise sur la Fécondité
• Executive agency: Direction de la Statistique
• Date of fieldwork: 1978
• Universe: All women, 15-49
• Coverage: National, 100%
• Size: 3985
• Weights: Self-weighting
• Contents: WFS Core Mark 1 + FOTCAF module
• Supplementary surveys: Household members (n = 193,032, self-weighting)

Additional Information

This survey was performed as the first phase of the three-phase National Demographic Survey. The household survey comprised a complete enumeration of each selected area and was conducted by a predominantly male field force. Information on internal migration, marriage and ethnicity was collected but there were no items on fertility or mortality. 1-in-9 of the women aged 15-49 identified in the household enumeration was selected for the individual survey, which was conducted at the same time by a separate female field force. The questionnaire was translated into four main local languages.

The WFS FOTCAF module was used but questions on post-partum abstinence were omitted. Current marriages were classified into monogamous and polygynous unions, and the rank of the wife established. A complete history of non-live births is available on the SR file.

Release Conditions

Data may be used for academic research, provided that credit is given in any publication resulting from the research to the agency that conducted the survey and that two copies of any publication are sent to:

Madame Awa Thiongane Directrice Direction de la Statistique B.P. 116 Dakar Sénégal

Public Use Files

Available files include the household members data and dictionary, and the individual standard recode data and dictionary, and the supplemental survey data and dictionary, in the original WFS format. In addition, the individual standard recode data and dictionary dictionary are available in DHS/ISSA format. The table below lists the file names and descriptions.

File	Description	File Type
snhm02.dat	Household member data. Original ISI format	Ascii text file
snhm02.dct	Codebook for household member data. Original ISI format	Ascii text file
snread.me	Conditions of release for the original ISI format data	Ascii text file
snsr04.dat	Individual standard recode data. Original ISI format	Ascii text file
snsr04.dct	Codebook for individual standard recode data. Original ISI format	Ascii text file
snss01.dat	Supplimental survey data. Original ISI format	Ascii text file
snss01.dct	Codebook for supplemental survey data. Original ISI format	Ascii text file
snreadh.me	Conditions of release for the DHS format data	Ascii text file
snsr04h.dat	Individual standard recode data. DHS format	Ascii text file
snsr04h.dic	Standard ISSA dictionary for DHS format data (ISSA program is required to use this file)	Binary file (requires ISSA program to use this file)
snsr04h.map	Codebook file for the standard recode data. DHS format	Ascii text file

Key References

1. Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances, Enquête Seregalaise sur la Fécondité 1978: Rapport National d'Analyse, Dakar, 1981.

2. Gueye, L., Enquête Sénégalaise sur la Fécondité: Rapport d'évaluation, WFS Scientific Reports no 49, 1984.

3. Charbit, Y., L. Gueye and S. Ndiaye (eds), Nuptialité et Fécondité au Sénégal, Presses Universitaires de France, Travaux et Documents, Cahier no 112, 1985.

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