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Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Afghanistan, 2015
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AFG_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistics Organization (CSO) [Afghanistan], Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) [Afghanistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Any household member diagnosed with other cancer (H_HHCANCERDIAGOTH)

Data file: AFG2015-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 334
End: 334
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
123B. What type of cancer has been diagnosed?

BREAST CANCER A
LUNG CANCER B
LIVER CANCER C
DUODENAL CANCER D
CERVICAL CANCER E
OTHER________X
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
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
HHCANCERDIAGOTH indicates whether any member of the household had been diagnosed with some other type of cancer. The meaning of "other" depends on the specific types of cancer identified in a survey. The question specifies no timeframe, so the diagnosis might have been recent or in the distant past, or might even apply to a deceased former household member.

The information in HHCANCERDIAGOTH 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.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Healthcare Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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