Demographic and Health Survey 2007 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 2007

Reference ID

BGD_2007_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT), Mitra and Associates, and Macro 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 (C_DECKIDHEALTH)

Data file: BGD2007-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 542

End: 542

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

826) Who usually makes decisions about your child health care?

RESPONDENT 1
HUSBAND 2
RESPONDENT AND HUSBAND JOINTLY 3
SOMEONE ELSE 4
RESPONDENT AND SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY 5

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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