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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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Sep 19, 2018
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Sought help to stop violence: Police (W_DVHPOL)

Data file: KEN2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1166
End: 1166
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1230. From whom have you sought help? Anyone else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

OWN FAMILY A (GO TO 1232)
HUSBAND/PARTNER'S FAMILY B (GO TO 1232)
CURRENT/LAST/LATE HUSBAND/PARTNER C (GO TO 1232)
CURRENT/FORMER BOYFRIEND D (GO TO 1232)
FRIEND E (GO TO 1232)
NEIGHBOR F (GO TO 1232)
RELIGIOUS LEADER G (GO TO 1232)
DOCTOR/MEDICAL PERSONNEL H (GO TO 1232)
POLICE I (GO TO 1232)
LAWYER J (GO TO 1232)
SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATION K (GO TO 1232)
COMMUNITY LEADER/LOCAL ADMIN L (GO TO 1232)
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___________ X (GO TO 1232)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes, sought help from police
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
For women who were randomly selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and had experienced physical or sexual abuse, DVHPOL (D119XE) indicates whether they sought help from the police to stop that abuse.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Help sought for abuse Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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