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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997
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MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Démographie et des Statistiques Sociales, Institut National de la Statistique [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Time since last intercourse in months (imputed) (W_TIMESINCESEXM)

Data file: MDG1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 697
End: 699
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Now I would like to ask you some questions about your sexual activity in order to gain a better understanding of certain problems related to family planning.

515. How long has it been since the last time you had sexual intercourse (if you've ever had it)?

NEVER 00 (GO TO 608)

DAYS AGO 1 ______
WEEKS AGO 2 _______
MONTHS AGO 3 _______
YEARS AGO 4 ______

BEFORE LAST BIRTH 996
Categories
Value Category
000 Less than 1 month
993 No partner
994 With former husband
995 Before last birth
996 Inconsistent
997 Don't know
998 Missing
999 NIU (not in universe)
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
TIMESINCESEXM (V529) reports the computed time (in months) since the respondent last had sexual intercourse.

This variable's value is computed from the responses in TIMESINCESEX (V527), with durations exceeding the interval since the last birth recoded as "Before last birth."

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Recent sexual experience Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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