Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2008

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Reference ID

EGY_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health [Egypt], E-Zanaty and Associates, and Macro International., 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 making large household purchases (C_DECBIGHH)

Data file: EGY2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 597

End: 598

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

827. Who usually makes the following decisions: mainly you, mainly your husband, you and your husband jointly, or someone else?

About health care for yourself?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
OTHER 6

About making major household purchases?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
OTHER 6

About making purchases for daily household needs?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
OTHER 6

About visits to your family or relatives?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
OTHER 6

Categories

Value	Category
10	Woman alone
20	Woman and husband/partner
30	Woman and someone else
40	Husband/partner
50	Someone else
51	Other senior male
52	Other senior female
60	Other or not applicable
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)
53	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

DECBIGHH (V743B) indicates who in the woman's household usually makes decisions regarding large household purchases.

concept

Concept

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

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