Home / Central Data Catalog / ZMB_2001_DHS_V01_M_V02_A_IPUMS / variable [M]
central

Demographic and Health Survey 2001-02 - IPUMS Subset

Zambia, 2001 - 2002
Get Microdata
Reference ID
ZMB_2001_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Office, Central Board of Health [Zambia] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
Page views
307655

If wife refuses to have sex, husband has right to: Use force for sex (M_NOSEXFORCEOK)

Data file: ZMB2001-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 625
End: 625
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
804. Do you think that if a woman refuses to have sex with her husband when he wants her to, he has the right to...

Get angry and reprimand her?
Refuse to give her money or other means of financial support?
Use force and have sex with her even if she does not want to?
Go and have sex with another woman

GET ANGRY

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

REFUSE MONEY

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

RAPE HER

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

ANOTHER WOMAN

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know, it depends
8 Missing
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
NOSEXFORCEOK (MV634C) indicates whether the man believes that, if a wife refuses to have sex, her husband has the right to use force to secure unwanted sex with her. This variable was one of a series of variables examining male respondents' views about "husband's rights."

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Sexual attitudes Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
Back to Catalog