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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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Final say on woman's health care (W_DECFEMHCARE)

Data file: BGD2000-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 477
End: 477
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
812. Who in your family usually has the final say on the following decisions:

Your own health care?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5

Child health care?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5

Making large household purchases?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5

Making household purchases for daily needs?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5

Visits to family, friends, or relatives?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5

What food should be cooked each day?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5
Categories
Value Category
1 Woman alone
2 Woman and husband/partner
3 Woman and someone else
4 Husband/partner
5 Someone else
6 Other/not applicable
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
7 Family elders/relatives
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
DECFEMHCARE (V743A) indicates who in the woman's household usually makes decisions regarding the woman's own healthcare.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Decision-making Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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