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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Frequency HH members go hungry (W_FIGOHUNGRYFQ)

Data file: ZAF1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 428
End: 428
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
34 Let us speak about the household and what it can afford. Would you say that the people here often, sometimes, seldom or never go hungry?

OFTEN 1
SOMETIMES 2
SELDOM 3
NEVER 4
Categories
Value Category
0 Never
1 Rareley
2 Sometimes
3 Often
7 Don't know
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
FIGOHUNGRYFQ reports how often, in general, members of the household go hungry.

The information in FIGOHUNGRYFQ is taken from the household record and applies to household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors (code "2") using:

RESIDENT variable when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis;
HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Food insufficiency Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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