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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2016
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Reference ID
NPL_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health, Nepal; New ERA; and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Had abortion in past 5 years (W_ABORTIN5YR)

Data file: NPL2016-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 401
End: 401
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
229B. What was the main reason you decided to have this (last) abortion?

HEALTH OF MOTHER 01
NO MONEY TO TAKE CARE OF BABY 02
WANTED TO DELAY CHILDBEARING 03
DID NOT WANT ANYMORE CHILDREN 04
WANTED TO SPACE CHILD BIRTH 05
HUSBAND/PARTNER DID NOT WANT CHILD 06
OTHER (SPECIFY)___ 96
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
ABORTIN5YR indicates whether the female respondent had an abortion in the past five years.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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