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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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Reference ID
ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Person who recently fetched HH water: Don't know (W_WHOFETCHDK)

Data file: ZAF1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 409
End: 409
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
27 Who fetched the water yesterday?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

FEMALE ADULT A
MALE ADULT B
FEMALE CHILD C
MALE CHILD D
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
WHOFETCHDK indicates whether the household respondent did not know the sex and age (adult or child) of the household member who recently fetched the household's water supply

For most samples, the type of person (by age and sex) primarily responsible for fetching the household's water is documented in WHOFETCHAGE (HV236).

The information in WHOFETCHDK 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.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Toilet and water Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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