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Demographic and Health Survey 2003-2004 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 2003 - 2004
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MDG_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie, des Finances et du Budget [Madagascar] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Woman currently postpartum abstaining (B_PPABSTAINNOW)

Data file: MDG2003-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 960
End: 960
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
438. Have you begun to have sexual intercourse again since the birth of (NAME)?
[ONLY ASK FOR MOST RECENT BIRTH.]

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 440)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
PPABSTAINNOW (V406) reports whether the woman is currently postpartum abstaining from sex. This variable is created from the maternity history by checking if the respondent has resumed sexual relations since her last birth. Women who did not have births in the last three to five years are automatically reported as not currently abstaining, and coded "No" (code 0).

When children or births are the unit of analysis, this variable describes a characteristic of the mother, which causes all children of the mother to be coded the same way.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General maternal and infant health Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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