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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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Method of periodic abstinence (C_FPRHYMETH)

Data file: SDN1989-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 389
End: 389
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
310 The last time you used periodic abstinence, how did you determine on which days you had to abstain?

BASED ON CALENDAR 1
BASED ON BOOY TEMPERATURE 2
BASED ON CERVICAL MUCUS (BILLINGS) METHOO 3
BASED ON BOOY TEMPERATURE AND MUCUS 4
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ 5
NO SPECIFIC SYSTEM 6
Categories
Value Category
1 Calendar
2 Body temperature
3 Cervical mucus
4 Body temp and mucus
5 No specific system
6 Other
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
FPRHYMETH (V314) reports how the woman determined which days to abstain from sexual intercourse to practice periodic abstinence (rhythm) as a means of delaying or avoiding pregnancy.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Recent use of family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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