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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
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Had pregnancies ending in miscarriage, abortion or stillbirth before calendar beginning (C_PRECALTERM)

Data file: GHA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 369
End: 369
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
235. Did you have any miscarriages, abortions or stillbirths that ended before 2003?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 237)
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
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
PRECALTERM (V239) indicates whether the respondent had any pregnancies terminated through abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth prior to the survey's birth calendar.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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