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Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 1992
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NAM_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health and Social Services [Namibia], Central Statistics Office [Namibia], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Complications at delivery: Other (C_DELPROOTH)

Data file: NAM1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 908
End: 908
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
412B) Did you experience any complications during labor and/or delivery of (NAME)?
IF YES: What kind of problem(s) did you have?
RECORD ALL PROBLEMS LISTED.

LABOR MORE THAN 24 HOURS A
EXCESSIVE BLEEDING B
CONVULSIONS C
MALPRESENTATION D
MULTIPLE PREGNANCY E
HIGH FEVER F
OTHER (SPECIFY)____G
NONE H
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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
DELPROOTH indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question about delivery complications, the child's mother reported experiencing some other complication. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child delivery care, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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