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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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If wife refuses to have sex, husband has right to: Use force for sex (M_NOSEXFORCEOK)

Data file: CMR2011-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 682
End: 682
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
616) In your opinion, if a wife refuses to have sexual relations with her husband he has the right to:

a) Become angry and reprimand her?
b) Refuse to give her money or other financial support?
c) Resort to force and have sexual relations with her even if she does not want to?
d) Go elsewhere and have sexual relations with another woman?

a)

YES 1
NO 2
DK/DEPENDS 8

b)

YES 1
NO 2
DK/DEPENDS 8

c)

YES 1
NO 2
DK/DEPENDS 8

d)

YES 1
NO 2
DK/DEPENDS 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know, it depends
8 Missing
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
NOSEXFORCEOK (MV634C) indicates whether the man believes that, if a wife refuses to have sex, her husband has the right to use force to secure unwanted sex with her. This variable was one of a series of variables examining male respondents' views about "husband's rights."

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Sexual attitudes Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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