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Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016
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TZA_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania], Ministry of Health [Zanzibar], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Last time HH received assistance (unit) (M_ASSISTIMUNIT)

Data file: TZA2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 454
End: 454
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
124K. When was the last time you received an assistance?
IF LESS THAN 2 YEARS, RECORD NUMBER OF MONTH. IF LESS THAN 1 MONTH, RECORD '00'.

MONTHS AGO 1 ____
YEARS AGO 2 _____
Categories
Value Category
1 Months ago
2 Years ago
3 Other
6 Non-resident
7 Don't know
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
For women in households who have ever received assistance - such as money, food, or some "other" form of assistance - from a government or non-governmental organization (NGO), ASSISTIMUNIT, combined with ASSISTIMNO, reports the last time the household received assistance.

IPUMS-DHS users should note that this variable reports only the specific unit of time i.e. months, or years. The specific number of months or years is reported in ASSISTIMNO. As a result, researchers interested in using ASSISTIMUNIT should also use ASSISTIMNO, or ASSISTIMCOM , a composite variable that reports both the units in which the respondent gave her answer and the time in the units given.

The information in ASSISTIMUNIT is taken from the household record, linked to the record of the woman respondent. This information applies to household residents, not temporary visitors, so researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2").

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Material hardship Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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