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Codes and Frequencies
Description
BUFFALOYN indicates whether household owns any (water) buffalos.
The information in BUFFALOYN 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 when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.
Universe
- Bangladesh 2011: Ever-married women age 12-49.
- Bangladesh 2018: Ever-married women age 15-49.
- India 1992: Ever-married women age 13-49 in households that own any livestock.
- Nepal 2006: All women age 15-49.
- Nepal 2011: All women age 15-49.
- Nepal 2016: All women age 15-49.
- Pakistan 2006: Ever-married women age 15-49.
- Pakistan 2012: Ever-married women age 15-49.