[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Weight for domestic violence module (W_DVWEIGHT)

Data file: IND2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 6

Start: 184

End: 191

Width: 8

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

DVWEIGHT (D005) is an 8-digit variable with 6 implied decimal places, which should be used as a weighting factor for the subset of women who were randomly selected and interviewed in privacy for the domestic violence module (as indicated by DVMODULE) (V044). For further information about using weights with the DHS data, see PERWEIGHT (V005).

Note: The 6 implied decimal places in DVWEIGHT mean that the last six digits of the eight-digit variable are decimal digits, but there is no actual decimal in the data.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Weights and subsample selection Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

DVWEIGHT is an 8-digit numeric variable with 6 implied decimal places.

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