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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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Jan 16, 2021
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Final say on household purchases for daily needs (W_DECDAILYPUR)

Data file: LSO2004-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 487
End: 487
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 or not applicable
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
DECDAILYPUR (V743C) indicates who in the woman's household usually makes decisions regarding household purchases for daily needs.

concept

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