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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
Producer(s)
Central Statistics Organization (CSO) [Afghanistan], Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) [Afghanistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Century month date of last pregnancy termination prior to calendar (Solar Hijri calendar) (W_PRECALTERMCMC_AF)

Data file: AFG2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 343
End: 346
Width: 4
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
9996 Inconsistent
9997 Don't know
9998 Missing
9999 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 women who had any pregnancies terminated through abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth prior to the survey's birth calendar, PRECALTERMCMC_AF (V242_AF) reports the century month date of the last pregnancy termination before the start of the birth calendar, according to the Solar Hijri calendar. This variable is only available for Afghan samples.

For information on how to interpret and calculate century month dates, see DOBCMC.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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