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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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Made arrangements to care for his own children if no longer able (M_CAREOWNCHILDMN)

Data file: LSO2009-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 243
End: 243
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
817 Now I would like to ask you about your own child(ren) who (is/are) under the age of 18.
Have you made arrangements for someone to care for (him/her/them) in the event that you fall sick or are unable to care for (him/her/them)?

YES 1
NO 2
UNSURE 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Unsure
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
CAREOWNCHILDMN (MV482A) indicates whether the male respondent has made arrangements for someone to take care of his own (biological) children if he were ever to get sick or were no longer able to take care of them.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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