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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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Reference ID
ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
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May 01, 2020
Last modified
May 14, 2020
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Regular medications seen (female household members) (H_HWFMEDICINE)

Data file: ZAF2016-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 389
End: 389
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 No medicines taken
1 Medicines seen
2 Not present
3 Refused
4 Other
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
HWFMEDICINE indicates whether the female household member takes any medicines, and if so, whether the interviewer saw the medicine(s).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Female biometrics, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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