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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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Made arrangements to care for other children if no longer able (W_CAREOTHCHILD)

Data file: NAM2006-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 264
End: 264
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1029. Have you made arrangements for someone to care for (this child/these children) in the event that you fall sick or are unable to care for (him/her/them)?

YES 1
NO 2
UNSURE 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
For women who are the primary caregiver of any children under 18 years of age other than her own biological offspring, CAREOTHCHILD (V482C) indicates whether the woman has made arrangements for someone to take care of these children if she were to get sick or if she were no longer able to take care of them.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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