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Demographic and Health Survey 2003 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2003
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GHA_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, and ORC Macro., 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 man's health care (M_DECMANHCARE)

Data file: GHA2003-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 459
End: 460
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

YOUR OWN HEALTH CARE?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND PARTNER JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

MAKING LARGE HOUSEHOLD PURCHASES?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND PARTNER JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

MAKING HOUSEHOLD PURCHASES FOR DAILY NEEDS?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND PARTNER JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

VISITS TO FAMLY OR RELATIVES?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND PARTNER JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

WHAT FOOD SHOULD BE COOKED EACH DAY?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND PARTNER JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6
Categories
Value Category
10 Man alone
20 Man and wife/partner
30 Man and someone else
40 Wife/partner alone
50 Someone else
51 Family elders
90 Other/not applicable
97 Don’t know
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
DECMANHCARE (MV743A) indicates who in the man's household usually makes decisions regarding the man's own healthcare.

concept

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