Demographic and Health Survey 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2011

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Reference ID

NPL_2011_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) [Nepal], New ERA, and ICF International Inc., 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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Frequency must eat fewer meals per day (W_FIFEWMEALSFQ)

Data file: NPL2011-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 529

End: 529

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

134) In the past 12 months, how often did you or any household member eat fewer meals in a day because of resources to get food?

NEVER 1
RARELY 2
SOMETIMES 3
OFTEN 4

Value	Category
0	Never
1	Rarely
2	Sometimes
3	Often
8	Missing

Description

Definition

FIFEWMEALSFQ reports how often household members ate fewer meals per day due to a lack of resources (never, rarely, sometimes, or often).

The information in FIFEWMEALSFQ is taken from the household record and applies to household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors (coded "2") using:

RESIDENT variable when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis;
HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis;
RESIDENTMN variable when men are the unit of analysis.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Food insufficiency Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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