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Nepal Family Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 1996
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NPL_1996_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health [Nepal], New ERA, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Traditional birth attendant gave delivery care (C_DELTBA)

Data file: NPL1996-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1021
End: 1021
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
414. Who assisted with the delivery of (NAME)?
Anyone else?
PROBE FOR THE TYPE OF PERSONS AND RECORD ALL PERSONS ASSISSTING.

HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

DOCTOR A
NURSE/ANM B

OTHER PERSON

TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT C
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH WORKER D
RELATIVE/FRIEND E

OTHER (SPECIFY)____________________________X
NO ONE Y
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
For children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, DELTBA (M3G) indicates whether a traditional birth attendant assisted with the child's delivery. Wording for this response category varied across samples. See Comparability.

Women could report more than one type of healthcare (or traditional) provider.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child delivery care, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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