Home / Central Data Catalog / MLI_2001_DHS_V01_M_V02_A_IPUMS / variable [B]
central

Demographic and Health Survey 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2001
Get Microdata
Reference ID
MLI_2001_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante' (CPS/MS) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique (DNSI) [Mali], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
Page views
95181

Attitude to wife beating: Justified if woman burns food (B_DVABURNFOOD)

Data file: MLI2001-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 894
End: 894
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
721. Sometimes a husband can get upset or angry because a certain things his wife does. In your opinion, is it legitimate that a husband beat or hit his wife in the following situations:

If she goes out without telling him?
If she neglects her children?
If she argues with him?
If she refuses to have sexual intercourse with him?
If she burns the food?

GOES OUT

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

NEGLECTS CHILDREN

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

ARGUES

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

REFUSES SEX

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

BURNS FOOD

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
7 Don't know
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
DVABURNFOOD (V744E) indicates whether the woman believes a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife if she burns the food.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Domestic violence attitudes Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
Back to Catalog