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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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Net treated with insecticide when bought (H_MLNETPRETR)

Data file: GHA2008-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 402
End: 402
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
132. When you got the net, was it treated with an insecticide to kill or repel mosquitos?

YES 1
NO 2
NOT SURE 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
For household members who slept under a bed net the previous night, MLNETPRETR (HML5) indicates whether the net the person slept under was treated with insecticide when it was purchased.

For household members who slept under more than one bed net the previous night, MLNETPRETR refers to the net numbered in MLNETINDX (HMLIDX).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Mosquito nets Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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