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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 treats water by: Adding bleach/chlorine (W_TRBLEACH)

Data file: GHA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 447
End: 447
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
107. What do you usually do to make the water safer to drink? Anything else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

BOIL A
ADD BLEACH/CHLORINE/ALLOY B
STRAIN THROUGH A CLOTH C
USE WATER FILTER (CERAMIC/SAND/COMPOSITE/ETC.) D
SOLAR DISINFECTION E
LET IT STAND AND SETTLE F
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ X
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
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
TRBLEACH (HV237B) indicates whether the household added bleach or chlorine to make water safer to drink.

The information in TRBLEACH 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 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
Toilet and water Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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