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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Heard of AIDS or other sexually transmitted infections (C_STIHEARD)

Data file: LSO2009-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 932
End: 932
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
901 Now I would like to talk about something else. Have you ever heard of an illness called AIDS?

YES 1
NO 2 GO TO 942
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Missing
7 Don't know
1 Yes
0 No
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
STIHEARD (V750) indicates whether the woman had heard of AIDS or any other sexually transmitted infection (STI).

For a variable that indicates whether the respondent had heard of STIs other than AIDS, see STIHEARDOTH (V785). For a variable that indicates whether the respondent had heard of AIDS specifically, see AIDSHEARD (V751).

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
STI knowledge Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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