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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2006
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Reference ID
MLI_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_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 du Ministere de l'Economie, de l'Industrie et du Commerce (DNSI/MEIC) [Mali], and Macro International Inc., 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 01, 2020
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Main reason never sought help (C_DVHMAINREAS)

Data file: MLI2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1210
End: 1211
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1025. What is the main reason why you never sought help?

DOESN'T KNOW WHERE TO GO 01
USELESS/NO NEED 02
PART OF LIFE 03
FEAR OF DIVORCE/SEPARATION 04
FEAR OF BEING BEATEN 05
FEAR OF CREATING PROBLEMS FOR THE AGGRESSOR 06
EMBARRASSED 07
DOESN'T WANT TO DISHONOR THE FAMILY 08
OTHERS (SPECIFY) __96
Categories
Value Category
99 NIU (not in universe)
98 Missing
11 Other - not important
10 Other, general
09 No money
08 Don't want to disgrace family
07 Embarrassed
06 Afraid of getting the person in trouble
05 Afraid of further beating
04 Afraid of divorce
03 Part of life
02 No use
01 Don't know where to go
97 Don't know
13 Other - Woman must bear this
12 Other - Recognized her mistakes
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 were randomly selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and experienced physical or sexual abuse for which they never sought help, DVHMAINREAS (D120) reports the main reason why they never sought help.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Help sought for abuse Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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