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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2005
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SEN_2005_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Humain [Sénégal] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Attitude to wife beating: Justified if woman refused to have sex (B_DVAIFNOSEX)

Data file: SEN2005-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1001
End: 1001
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
721. Sometimes, a husband gets upset or angry because a certain things his wife does. In your opinion, is a husband justified in beating or hitting his wife in the following situations:

If she goes out without telling him?
If she neglects her children?
If she argues with him?
If she refuses to have sexual intercourse with him?
If she burns the food?

GOES OUT

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

NEGLECTS CHILDREN

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

ARGUES

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

REFUSES SEX

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

BURNS FOOD

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
7 Don't know
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
DVAIFNOSEX (V744D) indicates whether the woman believes a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife if she refuses to have sex with him.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Domestic violence attitudes Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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