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Demographic and Health Survey 1989-1990 - IPUMS Subset

Sudan, 1989 - 1990
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SDN_1989_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Department of Statistics, Ministry of Economic and National Planning, the Republic of the Sudan, and the Institute for Resource Development/Macro International, Inc. (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Completeness of information on date of conception, current pregnancy (B_CONCEPTDATEFLAG)

Data file: SDN1989-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 254
End: 254
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
219 COMPARE 208 WITH HUMBER OF BIRTHS IN HISTORY ABOVE AND MARK:
COMPARE 208 WITH NUMBER OF BIRTHS IN HISTORY ABOVE AND MARK:

NUMBERS ARE SAME

INTERVIEW:
FOR EACH LIVE BIRTH: YEAR OF BIRTH IS RECORDED.
FOR EACH LIVE CHILD: CURRENT AGE IS RECORDED.
FOR EACH DEAD CHILD: AGE AT DEATH IS RECORDED.

NUMBERS ARE DIFFERENT (PROBE AND RECONCILE)
Categories
Value Category
1 Month- exact date
2 Date missing, imputed
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 pregnant women, CONCEPTDATEFLAG (V223) indicates the completeness of information relating to the date of conception of their current pregnancy. According to the DHS Recode Manuals, "This variable indicates whether the date of conception was exactly specified by the duration of the current pregnancy or the duration was imputed from other information."

The related variable DURCURPREG reports the duration of the current pregnancy.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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