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Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Zimbabwe, 2015
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Reference ID
ZWE_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Mother's health checked before discharge (C_PPCHECK)

Data file: ZWE2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1534
End: 1534
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
433. When was the decision made to have the caesarean section? Was it before or after your labor pains started?

BEFORE 1
AFTER 2
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
0 No
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 last-born children under age 5 who were delivered at a health facility, PPCHECK (M62) indicates whether the child's mother received a postpartum health check before she was discharged from the facility.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child health postpartum Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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