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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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Attitude to wife beating: Justified if woman refused to have sex (C_DVAIFNOSEX)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 938
End: 938
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
721 Sometimes a husband is annoyed or angered by things that his wife does. In your opinion, is a husband justified in hitting or beating his wife in the following situations:
If she goes out without telling him?

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

If she neglects the children?

PRES/LISTEN 1
PRES/NOT LISTEN 2
NOT PRES 8

If she argues with him?

PRES/LISTEN 1
PRES/NOT LISTEN 2
NOT PRES 8

If she refuses to have sex with him?

PRES/LISTEN 1
PRES/NOT LISTEN 2
NOT PRES 8

If she burns the food?

PRES/LISTEN 1
PRES/NOT LISTEN 2
NOT PRES 8

If she refuses to let husband decide how she should use her pay?

PRES/LISTEN 1
PRES/NOT LISTEN 2
NOT PRES 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
7 Don't know
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
DVAIFNOSEX (V744D) indicates whether the woman believes a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife if she refuses to have sex with him.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Domestic violence attitudes Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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