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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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Frequency must eat too small meals (W_FISMALLMEALFQ)

Data file: NPL2016-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 542
End: 542
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
309. CHECK 304: MARITAL STATUS

CODE 4 (NEVER IN UNION) 1
OTHER 2 (SKIP TO 313)
Categories
Value Category
0 Never
1 Rarely
2 Sometimes
3 Often
8 Missing
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
FINSMALLMEALFQ reports how often the household ate smaller meals because of a lack of food.

The information in FISMALLMEALFQ is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors (code "2") using:

RESIDENT variable when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis;
HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis;
RESIDENTMN variable when men are the unit of analysis.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Food insufficiency Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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