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Demographic and Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 1996
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BEN_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère du Plan, de la Restructuration Économique et de la Promotion de l'Emploi, Institut National de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Économique, Bureau Central de Recensement [Bénin], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Husband approves FP use (W_HUSPROFP)

Data file: BEN1996-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 524
End: 525
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
621) Spouses/partners do not always agree on everything. Now I want to ask you about your husband's/partner's views on family planning. Do you think your husband/partner approves or disapproves of couples using a contraceptive method to avoid pregnancy?

APPROVES 1
DISAPPROVES 2
INDIFFERENT 3
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Disapproves
20 Approves or indifferent
21 Approves
22 Indifferent
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
HUSPROFP (V610) indicates whether the woman believes her husband or male partner approves of couples using a family planning method to avoid pregnancy.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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