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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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Had pregnancies ending in miscarriage, abortion or stillbirth before calendar beginning (W_PRECALTERM)

Data file: NGA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 370
End: 370
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 2003. ENTER 'T' IN THE CALENDAR IN THE MONTH THAT EACH PREGNANCY TERMINATED AND 'P' FOR THE REMAINING NUMBER OF COMPLETED MONTHS.

235. Did you have any miscarriages, abortions or stillbirths that ended before 2003?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 237)

236. When did the last such pregnancy that terminated before 2003 end?

MONTH ____
YEAR ____
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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