Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016

Reference ID

TZA_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania], Ministry of Health [Zanzibar], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Flag variable for mother's postpartum amenorrhea (C_PPAMFLAG)

Data file: TZA2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1524

End: 1524

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

458) Has your menstrual period returned since the birth of (NAME)?

YES 1 (GO TO 460)
NO 2 (GO TO 461)

Categories

Value	Category
1	No flag
2	Greater than interval between birth and succeeding birth
4	Greater than interval between birth and date of interview by only 1 month
6	During pregnancy in calendar
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

PPAMFLAG (M28) reports the type of problem, if any, found in editing data on the duration of the child's mother's postpartum amenorrhea, for children born in the three to five years before the survey. Cases with no known problem are coded 0.

For discussion of the editing rules implemented (by the survey administrators) for data on postpartum amenorrhea, see PPAMHMO and PPAMHMOC,

concept

Concept

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

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