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Demographic and Health Survey 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 2012
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NER_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique (INS), Ministère des Finances [Niger] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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How fistula was contracted (B_FSHOWGOT)

Data file: NER2012-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1020
End: 1021
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1107) In your opinion, how did you get this illness?

WITCHCRAFT OR MYSTICAL ENCHANTMENT 01
BAD DESTINY/FATALIST 02
TOO YOUNG TO GIVE BIRTH 03
TOO OLD TO GIVE BIRTH 04
TOO THIN FOR PREGNANCY 05
TOO MANY SUCCESSIVE DELIVERIES 06
FREQUENT ILLNESS DURING PREGNANCY 07
DELIVERY OF LARGE BABY 08
HOME DELIVERY WITHOUT MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 09
LONG LABOR 10
UP TO GOD 11
OTHERS (SPECIFY) 96
DON'T KNOW 98
Categories
Value Category
10 Place of delivery/home
20 Pregnancy and delivery conditions
21 Big child at birth/still birth/first birth
22 Too young for childbirth
23 Too old for childbirth
24 Too thin to support the pregnancy
25 Too many successive childbirths
26 Frequently ill during pregnancy
27 Prolonged labor in childbirth
30 Other specified reasons
31 God's Will
32 Female circumcision
33 Witchcraft or sorcery
34 Fate or bad luck
40 Other
98 Don't Know
99 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
For women who have experienced fistula, FSHOWGOT reports the woman's opinion of how she contracted the condition (with a single answer recorded for each respondent).

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

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fistula, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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