Description

REMITGOTHH indicates whether a member of the household has received money from some other place in the same country or abroad. Remittances are often sent back to family members by persons who have migrated to a city, worksite, or other country to get a higher paying job.

The related variable REMITSENTHH indicates whether a member of the household transferred money to elsewhere in the country or abroad.

The information in REMITGOTHH is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.

Comparability

REMITGOTHH has no comparability problems.

Comparability - Standard DHS

REMITGOTHH is a country-specific variable not included in the standard DHS household questionnaire.

Universe