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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004
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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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Woman had health check by professional after birth (W_DELPPCHKB_ALL)

Data file: LSO2004-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1094
End: 1094
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
429 [After (NAME) was born/Before you were discharged], did anyone check on your health?

YES 1
NO 2 (SKIP TO 433)
Categories
Value Category
1 DELPPCHKB_ALL available
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 women who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, DELPPCHKB_ALL (M50_x) indicates whether the woman received a health check after delivering her child.

DELPPCHKB_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELPPCHKB_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELPPCHKB_02, DELPPCHKB_03, DELPPCHKB_04, DELPPCHKB_05, and DELPPCHKB_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELPPCHKB_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then DELPPCHKB_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Many surveys, specified in the Comparability section, collected this information for the most recent birth only (DELPPCHKB_01).

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Postpartum care Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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