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Demographic and Health Survey 2000-2001 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 2000 - 2001
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UGA_2000_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Uganda Bureau of Statistics [Uganda] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Completeness of information on date of conception, current pregnancy (B_CONCEPTDATEFLAG)

Data file: UGA2001-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 336
End: 336
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
227 How many months pregnant are you?
Record number of completed months E.G., 01, 02... 09.
If months are not known, record 98.
Enter 'P's in the calendar, beginning with the month of interview and for the total number of completed months.

Months ___
Categories
Value Category
1 Month- exact date
2 Date missing, imputed
9 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
For pregnant women, CONCEPTDATEFLAG (V223) indicates the completeness of information relating to the date of conception of their current pregnancy. According to the DHS Recode Manuals, "This variable indicates whether the date of conception was exactly specified by the duration of the current pregnancy or the duration was imputed from other information."

The related variable DURCURPREG reports the duration of the current pregnancy.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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