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Demographic and Health Survey 2005-06 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2005 - 2006
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IND_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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International Institute for Population Sciences and Macro International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sexual activity in past 4 weeks (W_SEXACTIV4WK)

Data file: IND2005-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 901
End: 901
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
606. When was the last time you had sexual intercourse?
IF LESS THAN 12 MONTHS, ANSWER MUST BE RECORDED IN DAYS, WEEKS, OR MONTHS AGO. IF 12 MONTHS OR MORE, ANSWER MUST BE RECORDED IN YEARS AGO.

DAYS AGO 1____ (GO TO 608)
WEEKS AGO 2 ____ (GO TO 608)
MONTHS AGO 3 ____ (GO TO 608)
YEARS AGO 4 ____ (GO TO 617)
Categories
Value Category
0 Never had intercourse
1 Sexually active in last 4 weeks
2 Not active in last 4 weeks (postpartum abs.)
3 Not active in last 4 weeks (not postpartum abs.)
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
SEXACTIV4WK (V536) reports the respondent's recent sexual activity (never had intercourse, sexually active in the last 4 weeks, not active in the last 4 weeks because of postpartum abstinence, or not active in the last 4 weeks because of something other than postpartum abstinence).

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Recent sexual experience Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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