Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS

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Heard of AIDS (CM2005A_AIDSKNOW)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 345

End: 345

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="CM05A519">41. Have you ever heard of HIV/AIDS?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No
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.

Interviewer instructions

<svar a="all" v="CM05A519"><span class="em">41. Knowledge of HIV/AIDS</span><br /><br />N.B: The question on the knowledge of HIV/AIDS is only asked to resident members of the household who help with the interview, mainly to the women aged 12 and up and to the men aged 15 and up. The people living there who are not helping with the interview will not be questioned on this subject.<br /><br />Q. Have you ever heard of HIV/AIDS?<br /><div class="i1">-Mark in the proper space the answer (1=Yes, 2=No).</div><br /><br />If the answer is no,<br /><div class="i1">-Go to question 42</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates if a resident member has heard of HIV.

Universe

Cameroon 2005: Resident members who helped with the interview, mainly women 12+ or men 15+ [discrepancies: unverifiable]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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