Codes and Frequencies
Description
DVHMEDIA8 indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the woman reported some other community-based worker as where she sought help from a doctor or other medical personnel after experiencing physical or sexual abuse. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample. This response category is country-specific to India.
Some samples in the "DVHMED" series include multiple categories that can be consolidated into a single broad response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable, while also preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.
DVHMEDIA8 is combined with DVHMEDIA7 (accredited social health activist (ASHA)) in DVHMEDPUBFW (all public fieldworkers) for the 2019 India sample.
Comparability
DVHMEDIA8 has no comparability problems.
Comparability - Standard DHS
DVHMEDIA8 is a country-specific variable, and it is not included in any phase of the standard DHS women's questionnaire or standard domestic violence module.
Although DVHMEDIA8 is a country-specific response not included in the standard DHS modules, it is combined with other responses in DVHMEDPUBFW, a variable that encompasses all public fieldworkers as where medical help after abuse was acquired. IPUMS-DHS users are encouraged to review the Description tab of DVHMEDIA8 or the Comparability tab of DVHMEDPUBFW for more information on the specific categories combined for the 2019 India sample.
Universe
- India 2019: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, and who have experienced physical violence since age 15, while pregnant, or at any time from their current/former husband/partner, or sexual violence at any time, and who sought help to stop violence from a doctor or medical personnel.
