Demographic and Health Survey 2013 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2013

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Reference ID

NAM_2013_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

The Nambia Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Final say on making large household purchases (M_DECBIGHHMN)

Data file: NAM2013-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 552

End: 553

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

614) In your opinion, is a husband justified in hitting or beating his wife in the following situations:

If she goes out without telling him?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

If she neglects the children?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

If she argues with him?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

If she refuses to have sex with him?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

If she burns the food?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

If she is friendly with other men?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW

Categories

Value	Category
10	Man alone
20	Man and wife/partner
30	Man and someone else
40	Wife/partner alone
50	Someone else
51	Family elders
90	Other/not applicable
97	Don’t know
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

DECBIGHHMN (MV743B) indicates who in the man's household usually makes decisions regarding large household purchases.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Decision-making Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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