Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004

Reference ID

LSO_2004_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Flag variable for mother's postpartum abstinence (C_PPABFLAG)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1314

End: 1314

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
9	NIU (not in universe)
0	No flag
1	Greater than interval between birth and succeeding birth
2	Greater than interval between birth and date of interview by only 1 month
4	During pregnancy in calendar
8	Missing

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

PPABFLAG (M29) is a flag variable reporting the type of problem found when editing responses about the duration of mother's postpartum abstinence (in PPABMO), for mothers who had resumed sexual relations after the child was born (in the last three to five years). A code of 0 indicates no problem with the original response.

concept

Concept

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

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