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Demographic and Health Survey 1999-2000 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 1999 - 2000
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Reference ID
BGD_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) [Bangladesh], Mitra and Associates (MA), and ORC Macro (ORCM)., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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HH has vulnerable group feeding card (M_HHVGFCARD)

Data file: BGD2000-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 348
End: 348
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
30. Does your family have a vulnerable group feeding (VGF) card?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
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
HHVGFCARD indicates whether the household has a "vulnerable group feeding (VGF) card." The vulnerable group feeding cards were meant to be distributed to very poor people by the Bangladesh government, beginning in 1975.

According to the International Labor Organization's description of the program:

Programme provides in-kind wheat transfer to enable destitute rural women to improve their economic and social condition. A complementary package of development services was introduced in 1988, including health and nutrition education, literacy training, savings.


Possession of a VGF card is not a certain marker of destitution, since an estimated 15 percent of the grain allotted was misallocated by local committees to better-off households for resale.

The information in HHVGFCARD is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.

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