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Demographic and Health Survey 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2001
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Reference ID
MLI_2001_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante' (CPS/MS) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique (DNSI) [Mali], 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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May 14, 2020
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Final say on making large household purchases (M_DECBIGHHMN)

Data file: MLI2001-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 405
End: 406
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
119L. In your family who generally has the last word in the following decisions:

Your own healthcare?
The purchase of major things for the household?
The purchase of things for daily household needs?
The visits to family or parents?
What food will be prepared each day?

OWN HEALTHCARE

THE RESPONDENT HIMSELF 1
WIFE/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND WIFE/PARTNER TOGETHER 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE TOGETHER 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

PURCHASING MAJOR THINGS

THE RESPONDENT HIMSELF 1
WIFE/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND WIFE/PARTNER TOGETHER 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE TOGETHER 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

PURCHASING MINOR THINGS

THE RESPONDENT HIMSELF 1
WIFE/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND WIFE/PARTNER TOGETHER 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE TOGETHER 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

FAMILY VISITS

THE RESPONDENT HIMSELF 1
WIFE/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND WIFE/PARTNER TOGETHER 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE TOGETHER 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

DAILY FOOD PREPARATION

THE RESPONDENT HIMSELF 1
WIFE/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND WIFE/PARTNER TOGETHER 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE TOGETHER 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
DECBIGHHMN (MV743B) indicates who in the man's household usually makes decisions regarding large household purchases.

concept

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