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Demographic and Health Survey 2003 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2003
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GHA_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ghana Statistical Service, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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How avoided infecting partner: Took medicines (B_STIPMED)

Data file: GHA2003-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 943
End: 943
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
819J. What did you do to avoid infecting your partner(s)?

Did you:

Use medicine?
Stop having sex?
Use a condom when having sex?

USE MEDICINE

YES 1
NO 2

STOP SEX

YES 1
NO 2

USE CONDOM

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Missing
1 Yes, took medicines
0 No
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
For women who had a sexually transmitted infection (STI), abnormal genital discharge, or a genital ulcer/sore in the past 12 months, STIPMED (V773C) indicates whether the woman took medicine to avoid infecting her partner(s) with the STI.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
STI experience Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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