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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
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Made arrangements to care for her own children if no longer able (W_CAREOWNCHILD)

Data file: LSO2009-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 261
End: 261
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1017 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
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
CAREOWNCHILD (V482A) indicates whether the woman respondent has made arrangements for someone to take care of her own (biological) children if she were ever to get sick or if she were no longer able to take care of them.

concept

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