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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2006
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BEN_2006_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE) in collaboration with the Programme National de Lutte contre le Sida (PNLS) [Bénin] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Woman can decide if sick child gets medical treatment (W_DECKIDHCARE)

Data file: BEN2006-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 600
End: 600
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
489) When (your child/one of your children) is seriously ill, can you yourself decide that he/she needs to be taken somewhere for medical treatment?

IF RESPONDENT ANSWERS THAT NONE OF HER CHILDREN HAVE EVER BEEN SERIOUSLY ILL, ASK: If (your child/one of your children) were seriously ill, could you yourself decide that he/she needs to be taken somewhere for medical treatment?

YES 1
NO 2
DEPENDS 3
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
2 Depends
7 Don't know
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
DECKIDHCARE (V466) indicates whether the woman can decide by herself to take her child to the doctor when the child is seriously ill.

Unlike several other questions about decision-making that specify which household member primarily makes a decision, DECKIDHCARE is a yes/no question referring only to the woman's decision-making power. The complementary variable DECKIDHEALTH indicates who has the final say on the children's health care.

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