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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 treatment status (H_MLNETSTATUS)

Data file: GHA2008-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 403
End: 404
Width: 2
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
10 Not pretreated
11 Not pretreated, came with kit and treated at home
20 Pretreated
21 Pretreated, permanent treatement
22 Pretreated, requiring future treatment
23 Pretreated, treatment type not known
30 Other
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 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, MLNETSTATUS (HML6) indicates the treatment status (not pretreated, permanently pretreated, requiring future treatment) of the bed net that the person used the previous night.

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

concept

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