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[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016
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IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Woman's health checked after discharge/home delivery for last birth (W_DELPPCHKA_01)

Data file: IND2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1492
End: 1492
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
462. In the two months after you were discharged, did any health personnel, anganwadi worker, ASHA, or traditional birth attendant [dai] check on your health?
[ASK FOR MOST RECENT BIRTH ONLY]

YES 1(GO TO 466)
NO 2 (GO TO 470)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
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 women who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey and delivered their last child at home, away from a medical facility, or who delivered their child at a medical facility and did not receive a health check before being discharged from the health facility, DELPPCHKA_01 (M66_1) indicates whether the woman received a postpartum health check sometime after the delivery of her last-born child.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Postpartum care Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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