Demographic and Health Survey 2003-04 - IPUMS Subset

Morocco, 2003 - 2004

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Reference ID

MAR_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministère de la Santé [Morocco], ORC Macro, et Ligue des États Arabes., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Delivery by caesarian section (W_DELCESR_ALL)

Data file: MAR2003-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 882

End: 882

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

428) Was (NAME) delivered naturally or by caesarean section?

NATURALLY 1 (GO TO 428D)
FORCEPS/VACUUM 2 (GO TO 428D)
CESAREAN 3

Value	Category
1	DELCESR_ALL available

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, DELCESR_ALL (M17_x) indicates whether their child was born by caesarian section. Question wording varied somewhat across samples; see Comparability.

DELCESR_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELCESR_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELCESR_02, DELCESR_03, DELCESR_04, DELCESR_05, and DELCESR_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELCESR_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

This information was collected for all births within the reference period preceding the survey. 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 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then DELCESR_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

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Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Maternal delivery care, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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