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Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Angola, 2015 - 2016
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Reference ID
AGO_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) [Angola], Ministério da Saúde (MINSA) [Angola], Ministério do Planeamento e do Desenvolvimento Territorial (MINPLAN) [Angola] and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Child's work requires using unsafe tools or heavy machinery (W_CHLHHWORKTOOLS)

Data file: AGO2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 532
End: 532
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
45) (In this activity/these activities) (NAME OF CHILD) used dangerous tools such as axe, knives or machetes, or did s/he operated heavy machinery in order to do the work?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 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
CHLHHWORKTOOLS indicates whether the child household member selected for the child labor module (CHLHHINDEX) recently did work requiring use of dangerous tools or operating heavy machinery.

This variable comes from a series of questions about possible hazardous conditions in children's work. If a "Yes" response was given for one of these hazardous conditions, questions about other hazards were not asked. Accordingly, the sum of all cases with "Yes" responses to any hazard identifies the total number of working children exposed to any (specified) hazard. This approach avoids double-counting working children but means one cannot identify multiple hazards in children's employment. For example, if a child is initially identified as carrying heavy loads, one cannot learn whether he or she is also required to operate heavy machinery.

The information in CHLHHWORKTOOLS is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child labor Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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