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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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Malaria spread by: Don't know (B_MLSPREDDK)

Data file: NAM2006-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1039
End: 1039
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1006. What causes malaria?
PROBE: Any other causes?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

MOSQUITO BITES A
RAIN B
UNHIGIENIC ENVIRONMENT C
SLEEPING WITH SOMEONE WITH MALARIA D
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
MLSPREDDK indicates whether the woman did not know any ways for someone to get malaria.

The related variable MLSPREDKNOW indicates whether the respondent believes she knows how malaria is transmitted.

concept

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