Definition
For children born in the five years preceding the survey, DELCD1 indicates whether a nurse assisted with the child's delivery. This response category is country-specific to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Some samples in the "DEL" series include multiple categories that can be consolidated into a single broad response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable, while also preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.
DELCD1 is combined with DELCD2 (nurse) for the 2007 and 2013 Democratic Republic of the congo samples to create the standard variable DELNURM (nurse/midwife). IPUMS-DHS users interested in using DELCD1 are encouraged to review DELNURM for this more comprehensive response category.