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Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Afghanistan, 2015
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AFG_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistics Organization (CSO) [Afghanistan], Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) [Afghanistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Had pregnancies ending in miscarriage, abortion or stillbirth before calendar beginning (W_PRECALTERM)

Data file: AFG2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 336
End: 336
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
235. ASK THE DATE AND THE DURATION OF PREGNANCY FOR EACH EARLIER NON-LIVE BIRTH PREGNANCY BACK TO HAMMAL 1389.

ENTER 'T' IN THE CALENDAR IN THE MONTH THAT EACH PREGNANCY TERMINATED AND 'P' FOR THE REMAINING NUMBER OF COMPLETED MONTHS.

236. Did you have any miscarriages, abortions or stillbirths that ended before 1389?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 238)
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
0 No
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
PRECALTERM (V239) indicates whether the respondent had any pregnancies terminated through abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth prior to the survey's birth calendar.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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