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Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1988
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GHA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ghana Statistical Service and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Woman can decide use of her earnings (B_DECUSEARN)

Data file: GHA1988-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 367
End: 367
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
718. Most of the time when you work for money, do you decide how all the money you earn will be used, how some of it will be used, or does someone else decide how your earnings are used?

DECIDES ABOUT ALL 1
DECIDES ABOUT SOME 2
SOMEONE ELSE DECIDES 3
Categories
Value Category
1 Decides how all will be used
2 Decides how part will be used
3 Someone else decides
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
DECUSEARN reports whether the respondent decides how all of the money she earns will be used, how some of it will be used, or if someone else decides how her earnings will be used.

The related variable DECFEMEARN (V739) indicates who in the woman's household usually makes decisions regarding how her earnings are spent.

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