[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Final say on making large household purchases (C_DECBIGHH)

Data file: IND2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 643

End: 644

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

925. Who usually makes decisions about making major household purchases: mainly you, mainly your husband, you and your husband jointly, or someone else?

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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