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Demographic and Health Survey 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2011
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CMR_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie de la Planification et de l’Aménagement du Territoire, Ministère de la Santé Publique [Cameroon] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Days youngest child left in care of another child for more than an hour in past week (C_CDALONEKID)

Data file: CMR2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1196
End: 1197
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1006) Sometimes, the adults who watch children have to leave the house to go shopping, do laundry, or for other reasons and have to leave young children.

In the last week, how often was (NAME):

a) left alone for more than an hour?
b) left under the care of another child (that is to say, someone under the age of 10) for more than an hour?

IF 'NEVER', RECORD '0'. IF 'DK', RECORD '8'

NUMBER OF DAYS LEFT ALONE FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR: ___
NUMBER OF DAYS LEFT WITH A CHILD FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR: ___
Categories
Value Category
00 0
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
97 Don't know
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
CDALONEKID reports the number of days in the last week that the respondent's youngest surviving and co-resident child under age 5 was left for more than an hour in the care of another child under age 10.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child development Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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