Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004

Reference ID

LSO_2004_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

Last modified

Jan 16, 2021

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Final say on woman's health care (B_DECFEMHCARE)

Data file: LSO2004-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 493

End: 493

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

719 Who in your family usually has the final say on the following decisions:

RESPONDENT = 1
HUSBAND/PARTNER = 2
RESPONDENT and HUSBAND/PARTNER JOINTLY = 3
SOMEONE ELSE = 4
RESPONDENT and SOMEONE ELSE JOINTLY = 5
DECISION NOT MADE/NOT APPLICABLE = 6

Your own health care?

1 2 3 4 5 6

Making large household purchases?

1 2 3 4 5 6

Making household purchases for daily needs?

1 2 3 4 5 6

Visits to family or relatives?

1 2 3 4 5 6

What food should be cooked each day?

1 2 3 4 5 6

Categories

Value	Category
1	Woman alone
2	Woman and husband/partner
3	Woman and someone else
4	Husband/partner
5	Someone else
6	Other/not applicable
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)
7	Family elders/relatives

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

DECFEMHCARE (V743A) indicates who in the woman's household usually makes decisions regarding the woman's own healthcare.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Decision-making Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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