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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004
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Reference ID
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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Decision-maker for using FP (W_FPDECIDER)

Data file: LSO2004-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 522
End: 522
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
623 You have told me that you are currently using contraception. Would you say that using contraception is mainly your decision, mainly your husband's decision or did you both decide together?

MAINLY RESPONDENT 1
MAINLY HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
JOINT DECISION 3
OTHER ______________(SPECIFY) 6
Categories
Value Category
0 Mainly husband, partner
1 Mainly respondent
2 Joint decision
3 Other
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
For women using family planning, FPDECIDER (V632) reports who decided on the use of contraception (mainly the woman, mainly her partner, joint decision, or someone else).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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