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Demographic and Health Survey 2008-09 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 2008 - 2009
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KEN_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Kenya National Bureau of Statistics and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Final say on visits to family or relatives (M_DECFAMVISITMN)

Data file: KEN2008-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 499
End: 500
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
613. In a couple, who do you think should have the greater say in each of the following decisions: the husband, the wife or both equally:

a) making major household purchases?

HUSBAND 1
WIFE 2
BOTH EQUALLY 3
DON'T KNOW/DEPENDS 8

b) making purchases for daily household needs?

HUSBAND 1
WIFE 2
BOTH EQUALLY 3
DON'T KNOW/DEPENDS 8

c) deciding about visits to the wife's family or relatives?

HUSBAND 1
WIFE 2
BOTH EQUALLY 3
DON'T KNOW/DEPENDS 8

d) deciding what to do with the money she earns for her work?

HUSBAND 1
WIFE 2
BOTH EQUALLY 3
DON'T KNOW/DEPENDS 8

e) deciding how many children to have and when?

HUSBAND 1
WIFE 2
BOTH EQUALLY 3
DON'T KNOW/DEPENDS 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Man alone
20 Man and wife/partner
30 Man and someone else
40 Wife/partner alone
50 Someone else
90 Other/not applicable
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
DECFAMVISTMN (MV743D) indicates who in the man's household usually makes decisions regarding visits to his wife's family or relatives.

concept

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