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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2008
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NGA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Antenatal care: Took iron tablets/syrup during pregnancy (W_ANIRON_ALL)

Data file: NGA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1714
End: 1714
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
421. During this pregnancy, were you given or did you buy any iron tablets or iron syrup?
SHOW TABLETS/SYRUP.

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 423)
DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO 423)
Categories
Value Category
1 ANIRON_ALL available
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
For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, ANIRON_ALL (M45_x) indicates whether they took iron tablets or syrup during the pregnancy.

ANIRON_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (ANIRON_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., ANIRON_02, ANIRON_03, ANIRON_04, ANIRON_05, and ANIRON_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If ANIRON_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For most surveys, this information on taking iron supplements during pregnancy was collected for only the most recent birth (ANIRON_01). Surveys in which the data were collected for additional births are noted in the comparability section.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Antenatal iron supplements Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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