Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008

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Reference ID

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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Person who usually decides how to spend male respondent's earnings (M_DECMANEARN)

Data file: GHA2008-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 522

End: 523

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

612. Who usually decides how the money you earn will be used: mainly you, mainly your (wife (wives)/partner(s)), or you and your (wife (wives)/partner(s)) jointly?

RESPONDENT 1
WIFE (WIVES)/PARTNER(S) 2
RESPONDENT AND WIFE (WIVES)/PARTNER(S) JOINTLY 3
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___ 6

Categories

Value	Category
10	Respondent alone
20	Respondent and wife/partner
30	Respondent and other person
40	Wife/partner alone
50	Someone else
51	Family elders
60	Other
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

DECMANEARN (MV739) indicates who in the man's household usually makes decisions regarding how the income the man earns is spent.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Decision-making Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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