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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 2005
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GIN_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan [Guinea] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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May 14, 2020
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Barrier to woman's health care: Distance to facility (B_BHCDISTANCE)

Data file: GIN2005-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1089
End: 1090
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Now I would like to ask you questions about health care for yourself.

490. There are different reasons that prevent women from getting advice or medical treatment for themselves. When you are ill and want advice or medical treatment, which of the following are a serious problem or not?

Knowing where to go.
Getting permission to go.
Getting money for treatment.
Not close to a health care establishment.
Finding a mode of transportation.
Not wanting to go alone.
Worry that there is no female health care professional.

KNOWING WHERE TO GO

SERIOUS PROBLEM 1
NOT A PROBLEM 2

GETTING PERMISSION TO GO

SERIOUS PROBLEM 1
NOT A PROBLEM 2

GETTING MONEY FOR TREATMENT

SERIOUS PROBLEM 1
NOT A PROBLEM 2

NOT CLOSE TO A HEALTH CARE ESTABLISHMENT

SERIOUS PROBLEM 1
NOT A PROBLEM 2

FINDING A MODE OF TRANSPORTATION

SERIOUS PROBLEM 1
NOT A PROBLEM 2

NOT WANTING TO GO ALONE

SERIOUS PROBLEM 1
NOT A PROBLEM 2

WORRY THAT THERE IS NO FEMALE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL

SERIOUS PROBLEM 1
NOT A PROBLEM 2
Categories
Value Category
10 Not a big problem
11 No problem at all
12 Small problem
20 Is big problem
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
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
BHCDISTANCE (V467D) indicates whether the woman reported "the distance to the health facility" as a barrier to getting medical care for herself.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Access to care Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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