Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2012

St. Lucia, 2012

Reference ID

LCA_2012_MICS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ministry of Social Transformation, Local Government and Community Empowerment, Central Statistics Office, United Nations Children’s Fund

Collection(s)

UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)

Metadata

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Dec 23, 2014

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Cooking location (HC7)

Data file: hh

Overview

Valid: 71

Invalid: 1938

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 78

End: 78

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Is the cooking usually done in the house, in a separate building or outdoors?
If “In the house“, probe: Is it done in a separate room used as a kitchen?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	In a separate room used as kitchen	8	11.3%
2	Elsewhere in the house	2	2.8%
3	In a separate building	5	7%
4	Outdoors	55	77.5%
6	Other	0	0%
9	Missing	1	1.4%
Sysmiss		1938

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

Circle the code corresponding to the response given. Circle '1' if the cooking is done in a separate room designated as a kitchen. Circle '2' if the cooking is done in an area used for living, sitting, sleeping, and not in a separate kitchen or building. Circle '3' if the cooking is done in another building and '4' only if the cooking is usually done outdoors.

If a response is given other than the pre-coded ones, circle '6' and specify the cooking place on the line provided.

The answers to the following two questions on ownership of certain items will be used as an approximate measure of the socio-economic status of the household.

Description

Source of information

Head of household or other responsible household member

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