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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 (male household members) (H_HWMBPMED)

Data file: NPL2016-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 815
End: 815
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
322. 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
HWMBPMED indicates whether the male household member is currently taking medicine to lower his blood pressure.

concept

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