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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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Prevent fistula by: Avoiding short birth intervals (B_FSSTOPINT)

Data file: NER2012-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1066
End: 1066
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1118) In your opinion, is it possible to prevent fistulas through the following behaviors?
a) avoiding young marriage in adolescents under the age of 18?
b) encourage education of young girls?
c) Avoid young pregnancy?
d) Avoid numerous pregnancies?
e) Avoid pregnancies close together?

AVOIDING YOUNG MARRIAGE

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

ENCOURAGE EDUCATION YOUNG GIRLS

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

AVOID YOUNG PREGNANCY

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

AVOID NUMEROUS PREGNANCIES

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

AVOID PREGNANCIES CLOSE TOGETHER

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
FSSTOPINT indicates whether the woman agreed with a yes/no question about whether fistula during pregnancy could be prevented by not having pregnancies too close together.

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

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Beliefs about fistula Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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