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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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Woman's health checked after discharge/home delivery for last birth (W_DELPPCHKA_01)

Data file: GHA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1384
End: 1384
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
442. After you were discharged, did any health care provider or a traditional birth attendant check on your health?
[Most recent birth within the last five years]

YES 1 (GO TO 445)
NO 2 (GO TO 453)
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
For women who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey and delivered their last child at home, away from a medical facility, or who delivered their child at a medical facility and did not receive a health check before being discharged from the health facility, DELPPCHKA_01 (M66_1) indicates whether the woman received a postpartum health check sometime after the delivery of her last-born child.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Postpartum care Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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