Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 1992

Reference ID

NAM_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Services [Namibia], Central Statistics Office [Namibia], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Premature birth (W_PREMATBR_ALL)

Data file: NAM1992-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1536

End: 1536

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

413) Was (NAME) born on time or prematurely?

ON TIME 1
PREMATURELY 2
DK 8

Value	Category
1	PREMATBR_ALL available

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, PREMATBR_ALL (M16_x) indicates whether the child was born on time or prematurely.

PREMATBR_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (PREMATBR_01) up to the sixth most recent birth (PREMATRBR_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If PREMATRBR_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

This information was collected for all births within the reference period preceding the survey. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then PREMATBR_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
General maternal and infant health Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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