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Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986
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Reference ID
SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Ever use Lactational amenorrhea method for FP (W_FPEVUSLAM)

Data file: SEN1986-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 462
End: 462
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
303. Have you ever used (METHOD)?

01. PILL: Women can take a pill every day to avoid becoming pregnant.

YES 1
NO 2

02. IUD: Women can have a loop or a coil placed inside them by a doctor or a nurse to avoid becoming pregnant.

YES 1
NO 2

03. INJECTIONS: Women can have an injection by a doctor, mid-wife or nurse to avoid becoming pregnant during many months.

YES 1
NO 2

04. OTHER SCIENTIFIC METHODS FOR THE WOMAN: Some women insert a diaphragm, a sponge, effervescent pills, jelly or cream before having sexual intercourse.

YES 1
NO 2

05. CONDOM: Men can put a rubber sheath on their penis before sexual intercourse so that their wife does not get pregnant.

YES 1
NO 2

06. FEMALE STERILIZATION: Women can have an operation to avoid having any more children.

YES 1
NO 2

07. MALE STERILIZATION: Men can have an operation to avoid having any more children.

YES 1
NO 2

08. RHYTHM METHOD: Every month that a woman is sexually active she can avoid pregnancy by not having intercourse on the days of the month she is most likely to get pregnant.

YES 1
NO 2

09. WITHDRAWAL: Men can be careful to pull out before climax.

YES 1
NO 2

10. ABSTINENCE: Some couples, outside of postnatal abstinence, avoid having sexual intercourse for months to avoid getting the woman pregnant.

YES 1
NO 2

11. MEDICINAL PLANTS (bark, roots, leaves)

YES 1
NO 2

12. GRIS-GRIS (amulet cord, node, fass, galane)

YES 1
NO 2

13. OTHER METHOD (SPECIFY) _____

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
FPEVUSLAM (V305_13) indicates whether the woman had ever used the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) to delay or avoid a pregnancy. The complementary variable FPKNOLAM indicates whether the woman knew about LAM as a method for family planning.

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