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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
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Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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HH owns livestock (C_LIVESTOCKYN)

Data file: GHA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 495
End: 495
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
124. Does this household own any livestock, herds, other farm animals, or poultry?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
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
LIVESTOCKYN (HV246) indicates whether the household owned any livestock, herds, other farm animals, or, in some surveys, poultry. This question was frequently included as a filter, to determine whether the respondent should be asked more specific questions about the household's ownership of specific types of animals or poultry.

The information in LIVESTOCKYN 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
Agricultural possessions Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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