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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2016
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NPL_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health, Nepal; New ERA; and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Ever diagnosed with high blood pressure (female household members) (H_HWFBPDIAGEVER)

Data file: NPL2016-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 533
End: 533
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
221. Were you told on two or more different occasions by a doctor or other health professional that you had hypertension or high blood pressure?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
HWFBPDIAGEVER indicates whether the female household member has ever been told by a health professional on two or more occasions that she has high blood pressure or hypertension.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Female blood pressure Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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