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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
Producer(s)
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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Should teach children 12-14 to wait until marriage for sex (C_SXTCHWAIT4MAR)

Data file: SEN2005-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 925
End: 925
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
843. Should children age 12-14 be taught to wait until they get married to have sex to avoid getting AIDS?

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW/NOT SURE/IT DEPENDS 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
SXTCHWAIT4MAR (V849) indicates whether the woman believes children age 12-14 should be taught to wait for sex until they are married, to avoid getting HIV/AIDS.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Sexual attitudes Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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