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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2016
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SEN_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD) [Sénégal], et ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Knows about lactational amenorrhea as a method of family planning (B_FPKNOLAM)

Data file: SEN2016-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 708
End: 709
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
SECTION 3. CONTRACEPTION

301) Now I would like to talk about family planning-the various ways or methods that a couple can use to delay or avoid a pregnancy.
Have you ever heard of (METHOD)?

01) Female Sterilization
PROBE: Women can have an operation to avoid having any more children

YES 1
NO 2

02) Male Sterilization
PROBE: Men can have an operation to avoid having any more children

YES 1
NO 2

03) IUD
PROBE: Women can have a loop or coil placed inside them by a doctor or a nurse which can prevent pregnancy for one or more months.

YES 1
NO 2

04) Injectables
PROBE: Women can have an injection by a heath provider that stops them from becoming pregnant for one or more months.

YES 1
NO 2

05) Implants
PROBE: Women can have one or more small rods placed in their upper arm by a doctor or nurse which can prevent pregnancy for one or more years.

YES 1
NO 2

06) Pill
PROBE: Women can take a pill every day to avoid becoming pregnant

YES 1
NO 2

07) Condom
PROBE: Men can put a rubber sheath on their penis before sexual intercourse.

YES 1
NO 2

08) Female condom
PROBE: Women can place a sheath in their vagina before sexual intercourse.

YES 1
NO 2

09) Emergency Contraception
PROBE: As an emergency measure, within three days after they have unprotected sexual intercourse, women can take special pills to prevent pregnancy.

YES 1
NO 2

10) Standard Days Method
PROBE: A women uses a string of colored beads to know the days she can get pregnant. On the days she can get pregnant, she uses a condom or does not have sexual intercourse.

YES 1
NO 2

11) Lactational amenorrhea method (LAM)
Up to six months after giving birth, before the menstrual period has returned, women use a method which requires her to breastfeed frequently day and night.

YES 1
NO 2

12) Rhythm Method
PROBE: To avoid pregnancy, women do not have sexual intercourse on the days of the month they think they can get pregnant.

YES 1
NO 2

13) Withdrawal
PROBE: Men can be careful and pull out before climax.

YES 1
NO 2

14) Have you heard of any other ways or methods that women or men can use to avoid pregnancy?

YES, MODERN METHOD (SPECIFY) ______ A
YES, TRADITIONAL METHOD (SPECIFY) _____ B
NO Y
Categories
Value Category
00 No
10 Yes
11 Yes, spontaneously
12 Yes, probed
97 Method not asked about at all
98 Missing
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
FPKNOLAM (V304_13) indicates whether the woman knew about the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) as a method for family planning. The complementary variable FPEVUSLAM indicates whether the woman had ever used LAM as a means to delay or avoid a pregnancy.

Some samples differentiate between spontaneous and probed affirmative responses; see Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Knowledge of family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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