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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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Frequency must eat too small meals (C_FISMALLMEALFQ)

Data file: NPL2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 534
End: 534
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
133) In the past 12 months, how often did you or any household member have to eat a smaller meal than you felt you felt you needed because there was not enough food?

NEVER 1
RARELY 2
SOMETIMES 3
OFTEN 4
Categories
Value Category
0 Never
1 Rarely
2 Sometimes
3 Often
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
FINSMALLMEALFQ reports how often the household ate smaller meals because of a lack of food.

The information in FISMALLMEALFQ is taken from the household record and applies to regular 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;
RESIDENTMN variable when men are the unit of analysis.

concept

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