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Codes and Frequencies
Description
WATCHCLOCK indicates whether the household has access to a timepiece, either a watch or a clock. The related variable CLOCKONLY indicates whether the household has a clock. See Comparability.
The information in WATCHCLOCK 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
Along with universe differences, WATCHCLOCK varies in question wording across samples. Most often, the interviewer asked "Does any member of your household own a watch?" Some surveys focused on the presence of a clock in the household; see discussion of specific samples below.
Comparability - Standard DHS
Beginning in Phase 5, the standard DHS questionnaire included the question "Does any member of this household own a watch?"
Universe
- Afghanistan 2015: All household members.
- Angola 2011: All household members.
- Bangladesh 1994: All household members.
- Bangladesh 1997: All household members.
- Bangladesh 2000: All household members.
- Bangladesh 2004: All household members.
- Bangladesh 2007: All household members.
- Benin 2011: All household members.
- Benin 2017: All household members.
- Burkina Faso 2010: All household members.
- Burkina Faso 2014: All household members.
- Burkina Faso 2018: All household members.
- Burundi 2010: All household members.
- Burundi 2012: All household members.
- Burundi 2016: All household members.
- Cameroon 2011: All household members.
- Cameroon 2018: All household members.
- Cameroon 2022: All household members.
- Chad 2014: All household members.
- Comoros 2012: All household members.
- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2013: All household members.
- Congo Brazzaville 2011: All household members.
- Cote d'Ivoire 2011: All household members.
- Egypt 2005: All household members.
- Egypt 2008: All household members.
- Egypt 2014: All household members.
- Eswatini (Swaziland) 2006: All household members.
- Ethiopia 2005: All household members.
- Ethiopia 2011: All household members.
- Ethiopia 2016: All household members.
- Ethiopia 2019: All household members.
- Gabon 2012: All household members.
- Gambia 2013: All household members.
- Gambia 2019: All household members.
- Ghana 2014: All household members.
- Ghana 2016: All household members.
- Ghana 2019: All household members.
- Guinea 2018: All household members.
- Guinea 2021: All household members.
- India 1992: All household members.
- India 1998: All household members.
- India 2005: All household members.
- India 2015: All household members.
- India 2019: All household members.
- Kenya 2008: All household members.
- Kenya 2014: All household members.
- Kenya 2015: All household members.
- Kenya 2020: All household members.
- Lesotho 2009: All household members.
- Lesotho 2014: All household members.
- Liberia 2007: All household members.
- Liberia 2009: All household members.
- Liberia 2011: All household members.
- Liberia 2013: All household members.
- Liberia 2016: All household members.
- Madagascar 2008: All household members.
- Madagascar 2011: All household members.
- Madagascar 2013: All household members.
- Madagascar 2016: All household members.
- Madagascar 2021: All household members.
- Malawi 2010: All household members.
- Malawi 2016: All household members.
- Malawi 2017: All household members.
- Mali 2012: All household members.
- Mali 2015: All household members.
- Mozambique 2011: All household members.
- Mozambique 2018: All household members.
- Myanmar 2015: All household members.
- Namibia 2006: All household members.
- Namibia 2013: All household members.
- Nepal 2006: All household members.
- Nepal 2011: All household members.
- Nepal 2016: All household members.
- Niger 2012: All household members.
- Niger 2021: All household members.
- Nigeria 2013: All household members.
- Nigeria 2015: All household members.
- Nigeria 2018: All household members.
- Nigeria 2021: All household members.
- Pakistan 2006: Household members in households selected to answer questions about household characteristics.
- Pakistan 2012: All household members.
- Pakistan 2017: All household members.
- Rwanda 2010: All household members.
- Rwanda 2013: All household members.
- Rwanda 2014: All household members.
- Rwanda 2017: All household members.
- Rwanda 2019: All household members.
- Sao Tome 2008: All household members.
- Senegal 2021: All household members.
- Sierra Leone 2008: All household members.
- Sierra Leone 2013: All household members.
- Sierra Leone 2016: All household members.
- Sierra Leone 2019: All household members.
- South Africa 2016: All household members.
- Tanzania 2010: All household members.
- Tanzania 2015: All household members.
- Tanzania 2017: All household members.
- Togo 2013: All household members.
- Togo 2017: All household members.
- Uganda 2009: All household members.
- Uganda 2011: All household members.
- Uganda 2014: All household members.
- Uganda 2016: All household members.
- Uganda 2018: All household members.
- Zambia 2007: All household members.
- Zambia 2013: All household members.
- Zambia 2018: All household members.
- Zimbabwe 2005: All household members.
- Zimbabwe 2010: All household members.
- Zimbabwe 2015: All household members.
