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Demographic and Health Survey 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2000
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MWI_2000_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Statistical Office [Malawi] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Had pregnancies ending in miscarriage, abortion or stillbirth before calendar beginning (W_PRECALTERM)

Data file: MWI2000-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 349
End: 349
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
234. ASK THE DATE AND THE DURATION OF PREGNANCY FOR EACH EARLIER NON-LIVE BIRTH PREGNANCY BACK TO JANUARY 1995.
ENTER 'T' IN THE CALENDAR IN THE MONTH THAT EACH PREGNANCY TERMINATED AND 'P' FOR THE REMAINING NUMBER OF COMPLETED MONTHS.

234A. Did you have any pregnancies that terminated before 1995 which did not result in a live birth?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 236)
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
0 No
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
PRECALTERM (V239) indicates whether the respondent had any pregnancies terminated through abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth prior to the survey's birth calendar.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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