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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2006
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NPL_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) [Nepal], New ERA, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Century month date of last pregnancy termination prior to calendar (Nepali calendar) (B_PRECALTERMCMC_NP)

Data file: NPL2006-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 377
End: 380
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
228. IF BORN DEAD OR LOST BEFORE BIRTH: In what month and year did this pregnancy end?

MONTH __
YEAR ___
Categories
Value Category
9996 Inconsistent
9997 Don't know
9998 Missing
9999 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
For women who had any pregnancies terminated through abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth prior to the survey's birth calendar, PRECALTERMCMC_NP (V242_NP) reports the century month date of the last pregnancy termination before the start of the birth calendar, according to the Nepali calendar.

Nepal uses a different calendar than most DHS countries, and Nepali months and years do not directly correspond to Gregorian calendar's months and years. For this reason, a country-specific variable, PRECALTERMCMC_NP, is released for Nepali samples. Note that Nepali century month codes are not directly comparable to those from other countries but are consistent across Nepali samples.

For information on how to interpret and calculate century month dates in general, see DOBCMC.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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