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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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Taking medicine to lower blood pressure (female household members) (H_HWFBPMED)

Data file: NPL2016-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 534
End: 534
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
222. To lower your blood pressure, are you now taking a prescribed medicine?

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
HWFBPMED indicates whether the female household member is currently taking medicine to lower her blood pressure.

concept

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