Encuesta de Demografía y Salud 1998

Nicaragua, 1997 - 1998

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Reference ID

NIC_1998_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Instituto Nacional de Estadlsticas y Censos (INEC), Ministerio de Salud (MINSA)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Child minder (v723)

Data file: REC71

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 37

End: 38

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

Women currently working or who have worked in the last 12 months and who have at least one living child aged 5 or less and still living at home ((V731 = 1 or V731 = 2) and count(REC21 where B8 <= 5 and B5 = 1 and B9 = 0) > 0).

Categories

Value	Category
0	Respondent
1	Husband/partner
2	Other child
3	Other relatives
4	Neighbors
5	Friends
6	Servants/hired help
7	Child is in school
8	Institutional care
10	Other female child
11	Other male child
12	Mother/mother-in-law
95	Not worked since bth
96	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.

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Notes

Who usually takes care of the youngest child while the respondent is working. Women who have the child with them at work are coded 0. Coding categories for DHS III are slightly different from those used in DHS II.

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