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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004
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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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Barrier to woman's health care: Distance to facility (C_BHCDISTANCE)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1095
End: 1096
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
490 Now I would like to ask you some questions about medical care for you yourself.
Many different factors can prevent women from getting medical advice or treatment for themselves. When you are sick and want to get medical advice or treatment, is each of the following a big problem or not?

Knowing where to go.

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

Getting permission to go.

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

Getting money needed for treatment.

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

The distance to a health facility.

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

Having to take transport.

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

Not wanting to go alone.

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2

Concern that there may not be a female health provider.

BIG PROBLEM 1
NOT A BIG PROBLEM 2
Categories
Value Category
10 Not a big problem
11 No problem at all
12 Small problem
20 Is big problem
98 Missing
99 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
BHCDISTANCE (V467D) indicates whether the woman reported "the distance to the health facility" as a barrier to getting medical care for herself.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Access to care Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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