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Mainstage Variable

cplmp01

how important decision are made in child s life

Datafile

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Question asked in the latest wave:

childmaintenance_w3.cplmp

Question label:

How important decision are made in child's life

Question text:

When important decisions, such as relating to education or health, have to be made in [childname]'s life, would you say that decisions are made...

Question universe:

if CMRoute = 1 (If biological parent of child(ren) aged <18 in household & other biological parent is absent from household)
and if CSACalc = 1 | 2 (If child's non-resident biological parent is alive)

Question interviewer instructions:

READ OUT IF RESPONDENT SAYS THAT DECISIONS ARE MADE ENTIRELY BY THEM, CODE AS ‘mainly by you’

Further details:
For further details about this question, please see the questionnaires

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
missing-93219.9%
refusal-2270.83%
don't know-1361.11%
...mainly by you1230571.12%
mainly by tf_chname s tf_motherfather2190.59%
or, do you and tf_chname s tf_motherfather have a roughly e346214.25%
spontaneous: it depends on the decision4712.19%
Total3241100.0%

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