Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

MWI_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Statistical Office (NSO) [Malawi] and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Has difficulty hearing or is deaf (H_DISHEAR)

Data file: MWI2016-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 728

End: 729

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

208. Does (NAME) appear to have any difficulty hearing (uses hearing aid, hears with difficulty or completely deaf?

YES 1
NO 2

Categories

Value	Category
00	No
10	Yes
11	Some difficulty
12	A lot of difficulty
13	Cannot hear at all
14	Yes, unknown level of difficulty
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

DISHEAR indicates whether the household member has difficulty hearing and, if so, the degree of difficulty.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
General disability Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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