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Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 2008 - 2009
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MDG_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Industrie [Madagascar] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Opinion on ways to treat water: Solar (W_PTRSOLAR)

Data file: MDG2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 463
End: 463
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
105A. In your opinion, what can someone do to make water safe to drink?
Anything else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

BOIL A
ADD BLEACH/CHLORINE B
ADD THE PRODUCT "SUR'EAU" (A WATER PURIFICATION PRODUCT) C
STRAIN THROUGH A CLOTH D
USE WATER FILTER (CERAMIC/SAND/COMPOSITE/ETC.) E
SOLAR DISINFECTION F
LET IT STAND AND SETTLE G
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
DOESN'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
6 Non-resident
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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
PTRSOLAR indicates whether the respondent said, in response to an open-ended question, that solar disinfection is something that can be done to make water safe to drink. Solar disinfection refers to placing water in transparent plastic bottles and exposing the filled bottles to full sunlight for at least 6 hours. The UV-A radiation from sunlight destroys pathogens in the water.

The information in PTRSOLAR is taken from the household record, linked to the record of the woman respondent. This information applies to household residents, not temporary visitors, so researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2").

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Toilet and water Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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