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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 2005
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GIN_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan [Guinea] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Midwife gave delivery care for last birth (Guinea) (W_DELGN2_01)

Data file: GIN2005-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1066
End: 1066
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
426. Who assisted with the delivery of (NAME)?
Anyone else?

PROBE FOR THE TYPE OF PERSON AND RECORD ALL PERSONS ASSISTING. IF RESPONDENT SAYS NO ONE ASSISTED, PROBE TO DETERMINE IF ANY ADULTS WERE PRESENT AT THE DELIVERY.

HEATH PROFESSIONAL

DOCTOR A
MIDWIFE B
AUXILIARY MIDWIFE C
NURSE D
TECHNICAL STERILIZATION ASSISTANT [note: This is a trained paramedical position] E

OTHER PERSON

TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT F
RELATIVES/FRIEND G
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X

NO ONE Y
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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 last five years, DELGN2_01 indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported a midwife gave delivery care (for the last birth). This response category is country-specific to Guinea.

Some samples in the "DEL" series include multiple categories that can be consolidated into a single broad response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable, while also preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.

DELGN2_01 is combined with DELGN1_01 (nurse) for the 1999, 2005, and 2012 Guinea samples to create the standard variable DELNURM_01. IPUMS-DHS users interested in using DELGN2_01 are encouraged to review DELNURM_01 for this more comprehensive response category.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Maternal delivery care, CS Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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