Demographic and Health Survey 1996-1997 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 1996 - 1997

Reference ID

BGD_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) [Bangladesh], Mitra and Associates, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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HH in urban slum (M_SLUMYN)

Data file: BGD1997-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 316

End: 316

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

32. IS THIS HOUSEHOLD IN A BOSTI (SLUM)?

RECORD OBSERVATION.

YES 1
NO 2

Value	Category
0	No
1	Yes
6	Non-resident
8	Missing

Description

Definition

SLUMYN indicates whether the household was located in an urban slum. Interviewers were prompted to record their observation about whether the location was an urban slum, but the questionnaire does not report the criteria for classifying the neighborhood as a slum. The question about urban slum location comes at the end of the household survey form, directly after questions about the home's building materials, so the evaluation may depend on the quality of housing nearby, rather than, say, the income or education levels of residents in nearby dwellings. Only a small minority of respondents were reported to be living in a "bosti" (urban slum).

The information in SLUMYN is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Housing Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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