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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 2016
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UGA_2016_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Duration of pregnancy (W_PREGDUR_ALL)

Data file: UGA2016-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2578
End: 2578
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
234) How many months pregnant were you when that pregnancy ended?

NUMBER OF MONTHS ____
Categories
Value Category
1 PREGDUR_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
PREGDUR_ALL (B20_x) reports the duration of the pregnancy (in months) before the child was born, for children born in the three to five years before the survey.

PREGDUR_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (PREGDUR_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (PREGDUR_06) for a female respondent of childbearing age. If PREGDUR_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

Information for this variable was collected on all births for a woman within a specified number of years before the survey, up to a maximum of six births. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 5 or 6 births within five years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in the past five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then PREGDUR_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General maternal and infant health Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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