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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2008
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Reference ID
EGY_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health [Egypt], E-Zanaty and Associates, and Macro International., Minnesota Population Center
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Woman's health checked before discharge after delivery (last birth) (W_PPCHECK_01)

Data file: EGY2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1121
End: 1121
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
552. Before you were discharged after (NAME) was born, did a health professional check on your health? IF YES: Who checked on your health at that time?
PROBE FOR MOST QUALIFIED PERSON.

HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

DOCTOR 1
NURSE/MIDWIFE 2
OTHER (SPECIFIC) _____ 6

NO ONE (GO TO 554) 7
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
For women who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey and delivered their last child at a health facility, PPCHECK_01 (M62_1) indicates whether the woman received a postpartum health check before she was discharged from the facility.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Postpartum care Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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