Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009

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Reference ID

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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Adult ever diagnosed with high blood pressure (W_HIGHBPDIAG)

Data file: LSO2009-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 2700

End: 2700

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1012H Have you ever been told by a doctor or a nurse that you have high blood pressure?

YES 1
NO 2 GO TO 1012J

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

HIGHBPDIAG indicates whether the respondent has ever been diagnosed with high blood pressure or hypertension.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Blood pressure Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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