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Demographic and Health Survey 1998-99 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1998 - 1999
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IND_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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International Institute for Population Sciences and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Final say on woman's health care (C_DECFEMHCARE)

Data file: IND1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 500
End: 500
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
SECTION 5B. STATUS OF WOMAN

511. Who makes the following decisions in your household:

What items to cook?
Obtaining health care for yourself?
Purchasing jewellery or other major household items?
Your going and staying with parents or siblings?

ITEMS TO COOK

1 RESPONDENT
2 HUSBAND
3 JOINTLY WITH HUSBAND
4 OTHERS IN HOUSEHOLD
5 JOINTLY WITH OTHERS IN HOUSEHOLD

OBTAINING HEALTH CARE FOR SELF

1 RESPONDENT
2 HUSBAND
3 JOINTLY WITH HUSBAND
4 OTHERS IN HOUSEHOLD
5 JOINTLY WITH OTHERS IN HOUSEHOLD

PURCHASING JEWELLERY/OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS

1 RESPONDENT
2 HUSBAND
3 JOINTLY WITH HUSBAND
4 OTHERS IN HOUSEHOLD
5 JOINTLY WITH OTHERS IN HOUSEHOLD

GOING/STAYING WITH PARENTS/SIBLINGS

1 RESPONDENT
2 HUSBAND
3 JOINTLY WITH HUSBAND
4 OTHERS IN HOUSEHOLD
5 JOINTLY WITH OTHERS IN HOUSEHOLD
Categories
Value Category
1 Woman alone
2 Woman and husband/partner
3 Woman and someone else
4 Husband/partner
5 Someone else
6 Other/not applicable
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
7 Family elders/relatives
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
DECFEMHCARE (V743A) indicates who in the woman's household usually makes decisions regarding the woman's own healthcare.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Decision-making Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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