Demographic and Health Survey 1999-2000 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 1999 - 2000

Reference ID

BGD_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) [Bangladesh], Mitra and Associates (MA), and ORC Macro (ORCM)., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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HH has vulnerable group feeding card (W_HHVGFCARD)

Data file: BGD2000-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 417

End: 417

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

30. Does your family have a vulnerable group feeding (VGF) card?

YES 1
NO 2

Value	Category
0	No
1	Yes
7	Don't know
8	Missing

Description

Definition

HHVGFCARD indicates whether the household has a "vulnerable group feeding (VGF) card." The vulnerable group feeding cards were meant to be distributed to very poor people by the Bangladesh government, beginning in 1975.

According to the International Labor Organization's description of the program:

Programme provides in-kind wheat transfer to enable destitute rural women to improve their economic and social condition. A complementary package of development services was introduced in 1988, including health and nutrition education, literacy training, savings.

Possession of a VGF card is not a certain marker of destitution, since an estimated 15 percent of the grain allotted was misallocated by local committees to better-off households for resale.

The information in HHVGFCARD is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Material hardship Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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