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Demographic and Health Survey 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2000
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Reference ID
MWI_2000_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Statistical Office [Malawi] 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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May 14, 2020
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Final say on visits to family or relatives (M_DECFAMVISITMN)

Data file: MWI2000-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 408
End: 409
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

Your own health care?

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

Making large household purchases?

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

Visits to family or relatives?

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

The number of children you should have?

RESPONDENT 1
WIFE/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND WIFE/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
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
DECFAMVISTMN (MV743D) indicates who in the man's household usually makes decisions regarding visits to his wife's family or relatives.

concept

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