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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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Knows someone who has HIV/AIDS (M_AIDKNOWONEMN)

Data file: LSO2004-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 519
End: 519
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
713 Do you know someone personally who has the virus that causes AIDS or someone who died from AIDS?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
AIDKNOWONEMN (MV775) indicates whether the man personally knows someone who currently has (or is suspected to have) HIV/AIDS or knows someone who died of AIDS.

The related variable AIDKNOWONE2MN serves as a check on the accuracy of responses to earlier questions about knowing someone with AIDS/HIV who may have experienced discrimination.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General HIV/AIDS knowledge Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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