Home / Central Data Catalog / COD_2013_DHS_V01_M_V02_A_IPUMS / variable [H]
central

Demographic and Health Survey 2013-14 - IPUMS Subset

Central African Republic, 2013 - 2014
Get Microdata
Reference ID
COD_2013_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministère du Plan et Suivi de la Mise en œuvre de la Révolution de la Modernité (MPSMRM), Ministère de la Santé Publique (MSP) [Democratic Republic of the Congo] et ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
Page views
142501

Child's work requires carrying heavy loads (H_CHLHHWORKLOAD)

Data file: COD2013-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 389
End: 389
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
259) Does this activity/do these activities require carrying heavy loads?

YES 1 (GO TO 262)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
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
CHLHHWORKLOAD indicates whether the child household member selected for the child labor module (CHLHHINDEX) recently did work requiring carrying heavy loads.

This variable comes from a series of questions about possible hazardous conditions in children's work. If a "Yes" response was given for one of these hazardous conditions, questions about other hazards were not asked. Accordingly, the sum of all cases with "Yes" responses to any hazard identifies the total number of working children exposed to any (specified) hazard. This approach avoids double-counting working children but means one cannot identify multiple hazards in children's employment. For example, if a child is initially identified as carrying heavy loads, one cannot learn whether he or she is also exposed to dangerous chemicals.

The information in CHLHHWORKLOAD is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child labor Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
Back to Catalog