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Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-16

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016
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TZA_2015_DHS-MIS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania], Ministry of Health [Zanzibar], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and ICF, Minnesota Population Center
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Unmet need for contraception (definition 3) (W_UNMETNEED3)

Data file: TZA2015-W

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: -
Format:

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Categories
Value Category
0 Never had sex
1 Unmet need for spacing
2 Unmet need for limiting
3 Using for spacing
4 Using for limiting
5 No unmet need
6 Not married and no sex in last 30 days
7 Infecund, menopausal
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
Like UNMETNEED and UNMETNEED2, UNMETNEED3 (V626A) is a constructed variable that indicates a woman's need for family planning, according to whether she has an unmet need or a met need to space or to limit her future births.

UNMETNEED3 is similar to UNMETNEED and UNMETNEED2. However, due to increased scrutiny of unmet need measures and the need for more consistent methods to collect these data, MEASURE DHS organized a Technical Expert Working Group (TEWG) to address these concerns. Broadly, the revisions agreed upon are as follows:

Exclude inconsistently collected data

Do not assume an unmet need status for women missing key data

Simplify classification of unmet need for spacing versus unmet need for limiting

Shorten the duration for which women are considered to be postpartum amenorrheic

Standardize the calculation of infecundity

Explicitly handle inconsistencies

For further detail on these revisions, consult "Revising Unmet Need for Family Planning" by Bradley, Croft, Fishel, and Westoff, found here [URL omitted from DDI.].

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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