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Demographic and Health Survey 2012-13 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2012 - 2013
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MLI_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Cellule de Planification et de Statistiques (CPS/SSDSPF), Institut National de la Statistique (INSTAT), Centre d’Études et d’Information Statistiques (INFO-STAT) [Mali] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Frequency that family member(s) went to bed hungry (M_FISLEEPHUNGRYFQ)

Data file: MLI2012-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 442
End: 442
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
123D) How many times did this happen; rarely (one or two times in the last 4 weeks), sometimes (three to ten times in the last 4 weeks), or often (more than ten times in the last 4 weeks)?

RARELY (ONE OR TWO TIMES IN THE LAST 4 WEEKS) 1
SOMETIMES (THREE TO TEN TIMES IN THE LAST 4 WEEKS) 2
OFTEN (MORE THAN TEN TIMES IN THE LAST 4 WEEKS) 3
Categories
Value Category
0 Never
1 Rarely
2 Sometimes
3 Often
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
FISLEEPHUNGRYFQ reports how often household member(s) went to bed hungry because there was not enough food.

Some surveys provided guidance on the meaning of the categorical response categories: Never (0 times in 4 weeks); rarely (1 or 2 times in 4 weeks); sometimes (3 or 4 times in 4 weeks); often (10 or more times in 4 weeks).

The related variable FISLEEPHUNGRYN provides a yes/no response to a question about whether a family member went to bed hungry.

The information in FISLEEPHUNGRYFQ is taken from the household record and applies to household residents. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors (coded "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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