Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009

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Reference ID

LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Who received most of late husband's property (B_WHOPROP)

Data file: LSO2009-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 531

End: 532

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

613 To whom did most of your late husband's property go to?

RESPONDENT 1 GO TO 615
OTHER WIFE 2
SPOUSE'S CHILDREN 3
SPOUSE'S FAMILY 4
OTHER 6
NO PROPERTY 7

Categories

Value	Category
10	Woman respondent
20	Other wife
30	Spouse's children
40	Spouse's family
50	Other
51	Respondent's children
52	Unrelated person
53	Equal share with others
60	No property
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 are currently widowed, WHOPROP (V539) reports who received most of their late husband's assets and valuables. Women who were not the main beneficiary were asked a follow-up question about whether they received any of the late husband's assets or valuables; see ANYPROP.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
SES general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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