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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
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GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Sought help to stop violence: Lawyer (C_DVHLAWYER)

Data file: GHA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1176
End: 1176
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1130. From whom have you sought help? Anyone else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

OWN FAMILY A (GO TO 1132)
HUSBAND/PARTNER'S FAMILY B (GO TO 1132)
CURRENT/LAST/LATE HUSBAND/PARTNER C (GO TO 1132)
CURRENT/FORMER BOYFRIEND D (GO TO 1132)
MALE FRIEND E (GO TO 1132)
FEMALE FRIEND F (GO TO 1132)
NEIGHBOR G (GO TO 1132)
RELIGIOUS LEADER H (GO TO 1132)
DOCTOR/MEDICAL PERSONNEL I (GO TO 1132)
POLICE J (GO TO 1132)
LAWYER K (GO TO 1132)
SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATION L (GO TO 1132)
COMMUNITY LEARDER/LOCAL ADMIN M (GO TO 1132)
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ X (GO TO 1132)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes, sought help from lawyer
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
For women who were randomly selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module and had experienced physical or sexual abuse, DVHLAWYER (D119XG) indicates whether they sought help from a lawyer to stop that abuse.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Help sought for abuse Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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