Demographic and Health Survey 2011-12 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2011 - 2012

Reference ID

BEN_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministère du Développement, de l’Analyse Économique et de la Prospective, Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE) [Bénin] and IFC International., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

Last modified

Sep 19, 2018

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Final say on children's health care (W_DECKIDHEALTH)

Data file: BEN2011-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 582

End: 582

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

826E) Who makes decisions regarding your children's health in your household?

RESPONDENT ALONE 1
RESPONDENT AND PARTNER JOINTLY 2
RESPONDENT WITH SOMEONE ELSE 3

Categories

Value	Category
9	NIU (not in universe)
8	Missing
6	Other or not applicable
5	Someone else
4	Husband/partner
3	Woman and someone else
2	Woman and husband/partner
1	Woman alone

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

DECKIDHEALTH reports who has the final say on the children's health care.

The related variable DECKIDHCARE (V466) indicates whether the respondent can decide whether a sick child gets medical treatment.

concept

Concept

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

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