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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
Last modified
May 14, 2020
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Years spent living abroad (H_USRESOUTYRS)

Data file: LSO2009-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 197
End: 198
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
(7) How long has (NAME) lived in (COUNTRY)?
IF LESS THAN 1 YEAR, RECORD 00' RECORD 98' FOR DON'T KNOW.

IN YEARS ___ ___
Categories
Value Category
00 Less than 1 year
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
13 13
14 14
15 15
16 16
17 17
18 18
19 19
20 20
21 21
22 22
23 23
24 24
25 25
26 26
27 27
28 28
29 29
30 30
31 31
32 32
33 33
34 34
35 35
36 36
37 37
38 38
39 39
40 40
41 41
42 42
43 43
44 44
45 45+
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
USRESOUTYRS reports the number of years a household member (included in the household listing) has been usually living in a country other than the country the survey was fielded.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Migration Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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