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Demographic and Health Survey 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 2012
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NER_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Institut National de la Statistique (INS), Ministère des Finances [Niger] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Main catastrophe affecting household in past 3 years (C_NATCAT3YMAIN)

Data file: NER2012-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 422
End: 423
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
142) What was the main event for your household?

ILLNESS 01
DEATH 02
LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYED 03
LOWERED REVENUE/REMITTANCE RECEIVED 04
FLOOD/DRAUGHT/LOSS OF HARVEST 05
CONFLICT/INSECURITY/THEFT OR LOSS OF LIVESTOCK 06
FIRE 07
LOSS OF MONEY 08
OTHER___________ (SPECIFY) 96
Categories
Value Category
01 Sickness
02 Death
03 Loss of work
04 Decrease of income
05 Flood/drought/harvest failure
06 Conflict/theft or loss of livestock
07 Fire
08 Loss of money
09 Lack of water
96 Non-resident
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
95 Other
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
NATCAT3YMAIN reports the main type of event that (negatively) affected life for the household, in the past 3 years. A household might have been affected by more than one such event--for example, serious illness of a household member followed by the person's death, or flooding that led to loss of livestock. The respondent stated the "main" event in response to an open-ended question.

The related variable NATCAT3Y is a yes/no variable indicating whether the household was affected by a negative event in the past 3 years.

The information in NATCAT3YMAIN is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Housing Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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