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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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Reference ID
LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Woman menstruated last 6 weeks (W_MENSTRUATE6WK)

Data file: LSO2009-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 325
End: 325
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
237 When did your last menstrual period start?

____________________(DATE, IF GIVEN)

DAYS AGO 1 ___ ___
WEEKS AGO 2 ___ ___
MONTHS AGO 3 ___ ___
YEARS AGO 4 ___ ___

IN MENOPAUSE/HAS HAD HYSTERECTOMY 994
BEFORE LAST BIRTH 995
NEVER MENSTRUATED 996
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
MENSTRUATE6WK (V216) indicates whether the woman menstruated in the 6 weeks prior to the interview, as calculated from TIMEMENSTRUATE (V215).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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