Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2005

Reference ID

EGY_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Population [Egypt], National Population Council [Egypt], El-Zanaty and Associates, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Main reason never sought help (C_DVHMAINREAS)

Data file: EGY2005-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1030

End: 1031

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

919) What is the main reason you have never sought help?

DON'T KNOW WHO TO GO TO 01
NO USE 02
PART OF LIFE 03
AFRAID OF DIVORCE/DESERTION 04
AFRAID OF FURTHER BEATINGS 05
AFRAID OF GETTING PERSON BEATING HER INTO TROUBLE 06
EMBARRASSED 07
DON'T WANT TO DISGRACE FAMILY 08
NOT IMPORTANT 09
OTHER (SPECIFY) _________ 96

Categories

Value	Category
99	NIU (not in universe)
98	Missing
11	Other - not important
10	Other, general
09	No money
08	Don't want to disgrace family
07	Embarrassed
06	Afraid of getting the person in trouble
05	Afraid of further beating
04	Afraid of divorce
03	Part of life
02	No use
01	Don't know where to go
97	Don't know
13	Other - Woman must bear this
12	Other - Recognized her mistakes

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

For women who were randomly selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and experienced physical or sexual abuse for which they never sought help, DVHMAINREAS (D120) reports the main reason why they never sought help.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Help sought for abuse Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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