[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Who performed respondent's most recent abortion (B_ABORTWHO)

Data file: IND2015-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 410

End: 411

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

239. Who performed the abortion?

DOCTOR 1
NURSE/ANM/LHV 2
DAI 3
FAMILY MEMBER/RELATIVE/FRIEND 4
SELF 5
OTHER (SPECIFY) _________6

Categories

Value	Category
10	HEALTH PROFESSIONAL
11	Doctor
12	Nurse/midwife/LHV
20	OTHER PERSON
21	Traditional birth attendant
22	Relative/friend
23	Self
95	Other
99	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

ABORTWHO reports who performed the respondent's most recent abortion.

The harmonized coding categories in the IPUMS-DHS variable ABORTWHO were constructed to reflect the major and minor categories in the original DHS variable. The major categories are:

10: Health professional
20: Other person

The second digit of ABORTWHO's codes distinguish between specific individuals.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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