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Demographic and Health Survey 2006-2007 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2006 - 2007
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NAM_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) [Namibia] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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How woman avoids malaria: Other (B_MLPRESOTH)

Data file: NAM2006-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1045
End: 1045
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1008. What do you do to prevent getting malaria?
Anything else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

HAVE THE HOUSE SPRAYED A
USE REPELLENTS B
USE MOSQUITO NETS C
USE MOSQUITO COILS D
BURN LEAVES E
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ X
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
MLPRESOTH indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the respondent reported using some other method to avoid malaria. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Malaria prevention Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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