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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
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GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Ever had pregnancy terminate via abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth (B_PREGTERMIN)

Data file: GHA2008-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 354
End: 354
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
229. Have you ever had a pregnancy that miscarried, was aborted, or ended in a stillbirth?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 237)
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
PREGTERMIN (V228) indicates whether the woman ever had a pregnancy that was terminated due to miscarriage, abortion, or stillbirth, and did not result in a live birth.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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