Demographic and Health Survey 2017 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2017

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Reference ID

SEN_2017_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD) [Sénégal], et ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Child put on mother's chest and bare skin after birth (C_DELCHEST)

Data file: SEN2017-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1682

End: 1683

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

434) Immediately after the birth, was (NAME) put directly on the bare skin of your chest?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
00	No
10	Yes
11	Yes, touching bare skin
12	Yes, not touching bare skin
13	Yes, don't know whether touching bare skin
97	Don't know
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

DELCHEST (M77) indicates whether the child was put on the bare skin of the mother's chest immediately after birth.

concept

Concept

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

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