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Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Tunisia, 1988
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TUN_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Office National de la Famille et de la Population et Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Knows about lactational amenorrhea as a method of family planning (C_FPKNOLAM)

Data file: TUN1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 394
End: 395
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
402) Have you ever heard of this method?

YES, SPONTANEOUS 1
YES, DESCRIPTION 2
NO 3
Categories
Value Category
00 No
10 Yes
11 Yes, spontaneously
12 Yes, probed
97 Method not asked about at all
98 Missing
99 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
FPKNOLAM (V304_13) indicates whether the woman knew about the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) as a method for family planning. The complementary variable FPEVUSLAM indicates whether the woman had ever used LAM as a means to delay or avoid a pregnancy.

Some samples differentiate between spontaneous and probed affirmative responses; see Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Knowledge of family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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