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Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 1987
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MLI_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Population pour le Developpement (CERPOD) de l'Institut du Sahel and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Method of periodic abstinence (W_FPRHYMETH)

Data file: MLI1987-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 402
End: 402
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
310. When you used the rhythm method the last time, how did you measure to determine the days when you should abstain?

CALCULATED THE DAYS ON A CALENDAR 1
BASED ON BODY TEMPERATURE 2
BASED ON THE CERVICAL MUCOUS METHOD 3
BASED ON BODY TEMPERATURE AND BASED ON THE CERVICAL MUCOUS METHOD 4
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____5
Categories
Value Category
1 Calendar
2 Body temperature
3 Cervical mucus
4 Body temp and mucus
5 No specific system
6 Other
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
FPRHYMETH (V314) reports how the woman determined which days to abstain from sexual intercourse to practice periodic abstinence (rhythm) as a means of delaying or avoiding pregnancy.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Recent use of family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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