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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Frequency that child family member(s) went to bed hungry (W_FISLHUNGRYKIDFQ)

Data file: ZAF2016-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 537
End: 537
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 Never
1 Rarely
2 Sometimes
3 Often
4 Always
6 Not applicable, no children in HH
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
FISLHUNGRYKIDFQ reports how often child household member(s) went to bed hungry because there was not enough food.

The information in FISLHUNGRYKIDFQ is taken from the household record and applies to household residents. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors (coded "2") using:

RESIDENT variable when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis;
HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis;
RESIDENTMN variable when men are the unit of analysis.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Food insufficiency Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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