Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Transmission of AIDS (CM2005A_AIDSTRAN)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 346

End: 347

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="CM05A520">42. What ways of transmission of HIV do you know?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Sexual contact<br />[] 2 Contact with infected blood<br />[] 4 From mother to infant (child)<br />[] 8 Use of stained objects<br />[] 16 Don't know</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Through blood
02	Sexual transmission
03	Through blood/Sexual transmDirty instrumentssion
04	Mother-to-child
05	Through blood/Mother-to-child
06	Sexual transmDirty instrumentssion/Mother-to-child
07	Through blood/Sexual transmDirty instrumentssion/Mother-to-child
08	Dirty instruments
09	Through blood/Dirty instruments
98	Unknown
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.

Interviewer instructions

<svar a="all" v="CM05A520"><span class="em">42. Knowledge of transmission of HIV/AIDS</span><br />N.B: The question on the knowledge of the transmission of HIV/AIDS is only asked to the female residents present aged 12 and up, and to the male residents aged 15 and up.<br />The codes for the terms of this variable are:<br /><div class="i1">01-sexual transmission<br />02-blood transfusion<br />04-from mother to child<br />08-use of dirty instruments<br />16-Don't know</div><br /><br />Q. What modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS do you know of?<br /><br /><div class="i1">-Mark in the space indicated while respecting the order or the registration column of the surveyed person, the code of knowledge of transmission of HIV/AIDS.</div><br /><br />N.B: Don't forget that the people mentioned at the top of the page are the individuals in the household deceased in the last 12 months.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates that the type of transmission of AIDS that a person has heard of.

Universe

Cameroon 2005: Resident members who helped with the interview, mainly women 12+ or men 15+ [discrepancies: unverifiable]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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