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Demographic and Health Survey 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2011
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NPL_2011_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) [Nepal], New ERA, and ICF International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Action to avoid food insufficiency: Take out loan (C_FIACTLOAN)

Data file: NPL2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 544
End: 544
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
138) Did your household have to adopt the following to meet the household food need in the last 12 months?

Take loan?

YES 1
NO 2

Collect wild food?

YES 1
NO 2

Consume seed stock for next season?

YES 1
NO 2

Sell household assets?

YES 1
NO 2

Sell livestock?

YES 1
NO 2

Sell land?

YES 1
NO 2

PROBE: Any other steps taken? If yes, specify.

YES 1 (SPECIFY) ______________
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
8 Missing
9 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
FIACTLOAN indicates whether the household took out a loan to avoid or deal with food insufficiency.

The information in FIACTLOAN is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. 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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