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Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Tunisia, 1988
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TUN_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Office National de la Famille et de la Population et Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Method of periodic abstinence (W_FPRHYMETH)

Data file: TUN1988-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 426
End: 426
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
410) The last time you used periodic abstinence, not having intercourse with your husband for specific days, how did you determine on which days you had to abstain?
Based on:

THE CALENDAR 1
BODY TEMPERATURE 2
M.A.O METHOD [##TRANSLATOR NOTE: UNABLE TO FIND TRANSLATION] 3
DIFFERENT COMBINATION 4
OTHER (SPECIFY) 5
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.

concept

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