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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
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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
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Woman can decide if sick child gets medical treatment (C_DECKIDHCARE)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 497
End: 497
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
489 When (your child/one of your children) is seriously ill, can you decide by yourself whether or not the child should be taken for medical treatment?
IF SAYS NO CHILD EVER SERIOUSLY ILL, ASK: If (your child/one of your children) became seriously ill, could you decide by yourself whether the child should be taken for medical treatment?

YES 1
NO 2
DEPENDS 3
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
2 Depends
7 Don't know
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
DECKIDHCARE (V466) indicates whether the woman can decide by herself to take her child to the doctor when the child is seriously ill.

Unlike several other questions about decision-making that specify which household member primarily makes a decision, DECKIDHCARE is a yes/no question referring only to the woman's decision-making power. The complementary variable DECKIDHEALTH indicates who has the final say on the children's health care.

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