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Demographic and Health Survey 2001-02 - IPUMS Subset

Zambia, 2001 - 2002
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ZMB_2001_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Office, Central Board of Health [Zambia] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Frequency HH has enough food to eat (C_FIENUFOODFQ)

Data file: ZMB2001-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 437
End: 437
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
46. These days, would you say that this household usually has enough food to eat, sometimes has enough food to eat, seldom has enough food to eat, or never has enough food to eat?

USUALLY/ALWAYS 1
SOMETIMES 2
SELDOM 3
NEVER 4
Categories
Value Category
1 Usually or always enough
2 Sometimes not enough
3 Frequently not enough
4 Never enough
6 Non-resident
8 Missing
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
FIENUFOODFQ reports how often the household has enough food to eat, from usually/always to never.

The information in FIENUFOODFQ is taken from the household record and applies to household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors (code "2") using:

RESIDENT variable when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis;
HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis;
RESIDENTMN variable when men are the unit of analysis.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Food insufficiency Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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