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Demographic and Health Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998
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ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M
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Department of Health, Medical Research Council
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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

Questions and instructions

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
95 Not worked since birth
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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