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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2005
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Reference ID
SEN_2005_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Humain [Sénégal] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Final say on making large household purchases (W_DECBIGHH)

Data file: SEN2005-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 563
End: 564
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
719. In your family, who generally has the last word in the following decisions:

Your own healthcare?
The purchase of major things for the household?
Purchase of things for daily household needs?
Visits to family or parents?
What food will be prepared each day?

OWN HEALTHCARE

THE RESPONDENT HERSELF 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND/PARTNER TOGETHER 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE TOGETHER 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

PURCHASE OF MAJOR HOUSEHOLD THINGS

THE RESPONDENT HERSELF 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND/PARTNER TOGETHER 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE TOGETHER 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

PURCHASE OF DAILY HOUSEHOLD NEEDS

THE RESPONDENT HERSELF 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND/PARTNER TOGETHER 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE TOGETHER 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

VISITS TO PARENTS/FAMILY

THE RESPONDENT HERSELF 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND/PARTNER TOGETHER 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE TOGETHER 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6

FOOD PREPARED DAILY

THE RESPONDENT HERSELF 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND/PARTNER TOGETHER 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE TOGETHER 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE 6
Categories
Value Category
10 Woman alone
20 Woman and husband/partner
30 Woman and someone else
40 Husband/partner
50 Someone else
51 Other senior male
52 Other senior female
60 Other or not applicable
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
53 Family elders/relatives
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
DECBIGHH (V743B) indicates who in the woman's household usually makes decisions regarding large household purchases.

concept

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