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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
Producer(s)
Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan [Guinea] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Technical health agent gave delivery care for last birth (Guinea) (W_DELGN4_01)

Data file: GIN2005-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1078
End: 1078
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, DELGN4_01 indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported a technical health agent gave delivery care (for the last birth). This response category is country-specific to Guinea.

concept

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