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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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Source of household's salt (W_SALTSOURCE)

Data file: NAM2006-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 489
End: 489
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
143. What is the source of this salt: was it bought in a shop or from an open market or does it come from a salt pan?

SHOP/SUPERMARKET 1
OPEN MARKET 2
SALT PAN 3
OTHER 4
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
1 Shop or supermarket
2 Open market
3 Salt pan
4 Other
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
SALTSOURCE reports where the household got its cooking salt. For many surveys, a sample of the household's cooking salt was tested for iodine levels.

The information in SALTSOURCE 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
Nutrition Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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