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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1998
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Reference ID
CMR_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Ministère des Investissements Publics et de l’Aménagement du Territoire [Cameroon] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Meaning of safe sex: Other (C_SAFESEXOTHER)

Data file: CMR1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 689
End: 689
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
806) What does 'safe sex' mean to you?

ABSTAIN FROM SEX B
USE CONDOMS C
HAVE ONLY ONE SEX PARTNER D
AVOID SEX WITH PROSTITUTES E
AVOID SEX WITH HOMOSEXUALS F
OTHER (SPECIFY): ___ X
DK Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 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.

Description

Definition
SAFESEXOTHER (V755X) indicates whether the woman stated, in response to an open-ended question, some "other" response to define "safe sex."

The meaning of "other" depends on the specific response categories included in a given sample. IPUMS-DHS users are encouraged to review the Survey Text tab to better determine the meaning of "other" for samples of interest.

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