Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1998

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NER_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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CARE International [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Flag variable for postpartum amenorrhea (last birth) (W_PPAMFLAG_01)

Data file: NER1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1990

End: 1990

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
0	No flag
1	Greater than interval between birth and succeeding birth
2	Greater than interval between birth and date of interview by only 1 month
4	During pregnancy in calendar
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

PPAMFLAG_01 (M28_1) reports the type of problem, if any, found in editing data on the duration of postpartum amenorrhea (for the last birth), for women who gave birth in the last three to five years. Cases with no known problem are coded 0.

For discussion of the editing rules implemented (by the survey administrators) for data on postpartum amenorrhea, see PPAMHMO_01 and PPAMHMOC_01,

concept

Concept

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

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