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[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016
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IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Final say on spending woman's earnings (W_DECFEMEARN)

Data file: IND2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 645
End: 646
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
921. Who decides how the money you earn will be used: mainly you, mainly your husband, or your and your husband jointly?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
OTHER 6
Categories
Value Category
10 Woman alone
20 Woman and husband/partner
30 Woman and someone else
40 Husband/partner
50 Someone else
51 Mother or father
52 Aunt or uncle
53 Family elders
54 Someone else, unspecified
60 Other or not applciable
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
For women who have worked in the last 12 months and were paid in cash or in cash and in kind in the last 12 months, DECFEMEARN (V739) indicates who in the woman's household usually makes decisions regarding how the income she earns is spent.

concept

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