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Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 2008 - 2009
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MDG_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Industrie [Madagascar] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Mother's health checked before discharge (C_PPCHECK)

Data file: MDG2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1425
End: 1425
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
439. Before you were discharged after (NAME) was born, did any health care provider check on your health?

YES 1 (FOR OTHERS, GO TO 455)
NO 2 (FOR MOST RECENT BIRTH, GO TO 442)
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
0 No
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 last-born children under age 5 who were delivered at a health facility, PPCHECK (M62) indicates whether the child's mother received a postpartum health check before she was discharged from the facility.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child health postpartum Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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