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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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Sep 19, 2018
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Final say on number of children to have (M_DECFAMSIZEMN)

Data file: CMR2011-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 529
End: 530
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
613) In a couple, who, in your opinion, should have the last word about each of the following decisions: the husband, the wife, or both equally?

a) make major purchases for household?
b) make purchases for daily household needs?
c) decide visits to wife's family, friends or relatives?
d) decide how the money the wife earns will be spent?
e) decide how many children to have?

a)

HUSBAND 1
WIFE 2
BOTH EQUALLY 3
DON'T KNOW/DEPENDS 8

b)

HUSBAND 1
WIFE 2
BOTH EQUALLY 3
DON'T KNOW/DEPENDS 8

c)

HUSBAND 1
WIFE 2
BOTH EQUALLY 3
DON'T KNOW/DEPENDS 8

d)

HUSBAND 1
WIFE 2
BOTH EQUALLY 3
DON'T KNOW/DEPENDS 8

e)

HUSBAND 1
WIFE 2
BOTH EQUALLY 3
DON'T KNOW/DEPENDS 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Man alone
20 Man and wife/partner
30 Man and someone else
40 Wife/partner alone
50 Someone else
90 Other/not applicable
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
DECFAMSIZEMN (MV743G) reports who in the man's household usually makes decisions regarding how many children to have.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Decision-making Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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