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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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Reference ID
LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Examined own breasts to check for breast cancer (B_BRCANSELF)

Data file: LSO2009-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1192
End: 1192
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1012J Have you performed a breast self exam to detect lumps within the last 12 months?

YES 1
NO 2
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
BRCANSELF indicates whether the woman has ever examined her breasts to detect or check for breast cancer.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Cancer Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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