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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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Reference ID
ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Mother's health checked before discharge (C_PPCHECK)

Data file: ZAF2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1606
End: 1606
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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
For last-born children under age 5 who were delivered at a health facility, PPCHECK (M62) indicates whether the child's mother received a postpartum health check before she was discharged from the facility.

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