Mobility                 package:ltm                 R Documentation

_W_o_m_e_n'_s _M_o_b_i_l_i_t_y

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     A rural subsample of 8445 women from the Bangladesh Fertility
     Survey of 1989.

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     The dimension of interest is women's mobility of social freedom.
     Women were asked whether they could engage in the following
     activities alone (1=yes, 0=no):  

     _I_t_e_m _1 Go to any part of the village/town/city.

     _I_t_e_m _2 Go outside the village/town/city.

     _I_t_e_m _3 Talk to a man you do not know.

     _I_t_e_m _4 Go to a cinema/cultural show.

     _I_t_e_m _5 Go shopping.

     _I_t_e_m _6 Go to a cooperative/mothers' club/other club.

     _I_t_e_m _7 Attend a political meeting.

     _I_t_e_m _8 Go to a health centre/hospital.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Bangladesh Fertility Survey of 1989 (Huq and Cleland, 1990).

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Bartholomew, D., Steel, F., Moustaki, I. and Galbraith, J. (2002)
     _The Analysis and Interpretation of  Multivariate Data for Social
     Scientists_. London: Chapman and Hall.

     Huq, N. and Cleland, J. (1990) _Bangladesh Fertility Survey,
     1989_. Dhaka: National Institute of Population Research and
     Training (NIPORT).

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     ## Descriptive statistics for Mobility data
     descript(Mobility)

