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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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Days antenatal iron supplement taken (W_ANIROND_ALL)

Data file: GHA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1654
End: 1654
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
422. During the whole pregnancy, for how many days did you take the tablets or syrup?
IF ANSWER IS NOT NUMERIC, PROBE FOR APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF DAYS.
[Most recent birth within the last five years]

DAYS ___
DON'T KNOW 998
Categories
Value Category
1 ANIROND_ALL available
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 gave birth in the last three to five years, ANIROND_ALL (M46_x) indicates the number of days they took iron tablets or syrup during the pregnancy.

ANIROND_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (ANIROND_01) up to, potentially, the sixth most recent birth (i.e., ANIROND_02, ANIROND_03, ANIROND_04, ANIROND_05, and ANIROND_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If ANIROND_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For most surveys, this information on days of taking iron supplements during pregnancy was collected for only the most recent birth (ANIROND_01). Surveys in which the data were collected for additional births are noted in the comparability section.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Antenatal iron supplements Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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