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

India, 2015 - 2016
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IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Mother's health checked after discharge/home delivery (C_DELPPCHKA)

Data file: IND2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1706
End: 1706
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
462. In the two months after you were discharged, did any health personnel, anganwadi worker, ASHA, or traditional birth attendant [dai] check on your health?
[ASK FOR MOST RECENT BIRTH ONLY]

YES 1(GO TO 466)
NO 2 (GO TO 470)
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 last-born children under age 5 who were either a) delivered at home/away from a medical facility, or b) delivered at a medical facility where their mother did not receive a health check before being discharged, DELPPCHKA (M66) indicates whether the child's mother received a postpartum health check sometime after the delivery of the child.

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