Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997

Reference ID

MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Démographie et des Statistiques Sociales, Institut National de la Statistique [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Final say on spending woman's earnings (W_DECFEMEARN)

Data file: MDG1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 482

End: 483

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

722. CHECK 502:

YES, CURRENTLY MARRIED OR LIVING WITH A MAN. Who principally decides how the money you earn will be used?

NO, NOT IN UNION. Who principally decides how the money you earn will be used? ('HUSBAND/PARTNER' OMITTED IN RESPONSE SET)

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND/PARTNER JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
SOMEONE ELSE AND RESPONDENT TOGETHER 5

Categories

Value	Category
10	Woman alone
20	Woman and husband/partner
30	Woman and someone else
40	Husband/partner
50	Someone else
51	Mother or father
52	Aunt or uncle
53	Family elders
54	Someone else, unspecified
60	Other or not applciable
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

For women who have worked in the last 12 months and were paid in cash or in cash and in kind in the last 12 months, DECFEMEARN (V739) indicates who in the woman's household usually makes decisions regarding how the income she earns is spent.

concept

Concept

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

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