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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Barrier to woman's health care: Getting permission (W_BHCPERMIT)

Data file: LSO2009-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2677
End: 2678
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1013 Many different factors can prevent women from getting medical advice or treatment for themselves. When you are sick and want to get medical advice or treatment, is each of the following a big problem or not?

Getting permission to go?

YES 1
NO 2
N/A 3

Getting money needed for treatment?

YES 1
NO 2
N/A 3

The distance to the health facility?

YES 1
NO 2
N/A 3

Having to take transport?

YES 1
NO 2
N/A 3

Not wanting to go alone?

YES 1
NO 2
N/A 3

Concern about health professional's attitude?

YES 1
NO 2
N/A 3

Concern that there may be no drugs available?

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2
Categories
Value Category
10 Not a big problem
11 No problem at all
12 Small problem
20 Is big problem
98 Missing
99 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
BHCPERMIT (V467B) indicates whether the woman reported "obtaining permission to go to the doctor/seek treatment" as a barrier to getting medical care for herself.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Access to care Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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