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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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Century month date of last pregnancy termination (Nepali calendar) (C_PREGTERMCMC_NP)

Data file: NPL1996-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 356
End: 359
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
225. IF BORN DEAD OR LOST BEFORE FULL TERM: In what year and month 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
PREGTERMCMC_NP (V231_NP) reports the century month code of the respondent's last pregnancy termination, according to the Nepali calendar (or Vikram Samvat). The Nepalese year uses 12 lunar months of 29-32 days. According to the Gregorian calendar, the Nepalese year begins in mid-April and ends the following April. In general, the Nepalese calendar is 57 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar.

According to the DHS Recode Manuals, "The CMC date of termination is calculated from the preceding questions [on month and year of last pregnancy termination], or from the calendar, if possible, in cases where an exact date was not given for the date of last pregnancy termination."

For detailed discussion of the calculation and interpretation of century month codes in general, see DOBCMC (Respondent's date of birth, in century months).

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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