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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2004
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Reference ID
CMR_2004_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de la Planification, de la Programmation du Développement et de l’Aménagement du Territoire [Cameroon] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Aug 15, 2018
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Barrier to woman's health care: Getting permission (C_BHCPERMIT)

Data file: CMR2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1239
End: 1240
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
490) Now I would like to ask you some questions about medical care for you yourself.

Many different factors can prevent women from getting medical advice or treatment for themselves. When you are sick and want to get medical advice or treatment, is each of the following a big problem or not?

Not knowing where to go?
Getting permission to go?
Getting money needed for treatment?
The distance to the health facility?
Having to take transport?
Not wanting to go alone?
Concern that there may not be a female health care provider?

WHERE TO GO

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

PERMISSION

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

MONEY

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

DISTANCE

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

TRANSPORTATION

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

ALONE

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

FEMALE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2
Categories
Value Category
10 Not a big problem
11 No problem at all
12 Small problem
20 Is big problem
98 Missing
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.

Description

Definition
BHCPERMIT (V467B) indicates whether the woman reported "obtaining permission to go to the doctor/seek treatment" as a barrier to getting medical care for herself.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Access to care Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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