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Demographic and Health Survey 2017-2018 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 2017 - 2018
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PAK_2017_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS) [Pakistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Completeness of information for last pregnancy termination prior to calendar (C_PRECALTERMCOMP)

Data file: PAK2017-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 370
End: 370
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
225) FOR EACH BIRTH IN 2012-2018, ENTER 'B' IN THE MONTH OF BIRTH IN THE CALENDAR. WRITE THE NAME OF THE CHILD TO THE LEFT OF THE 'B' CODE. FOR EACH BIRTH, ASK THE NUMBER OF COMPLETED MONTHS THE PREGNANCY LASTED AND RECORD 'P' IN EACH OF THE PRECEDING MONTHS ACCORDING TO THE DURATION OF PREGNANCY. (NOTE: THE NUMBER OF 'P'S MUST BE ONE LESS THAN THE NUMBER OF MONTHS THAT THE PREGNANCY LASTED.)

CHECK 220AC FOR EACH PREGNANCY THAT DID NOT END IN A LIVE BIRTH. CHECK 220AD. IF YES (CODE '1' CIRCLED), ENTER 'A' FOR ABORTION OR 'C' (IF CODE '2' CIRCLED) FOR MISCARRIAGE OR 'S' FOR STILLBIRTH, IN CALENDAR IN THE MONTH THAT THE PREGNANCY TERMINATED AND 'P' FOR THE REMAINING NUMBER OF COMPLETED MONTHS OF PREGNANCY.

IF THERE ARE MORE THAN FOUR PREGNANCIES THAT DID NOT END IN A LIVE BIRTH, USE AN ADDITIONAL QUESTIONAIRRE STARTING ON THE SECOND LINE.
Categories
Value Category
1 Month and year
2 From calendar
3 Year only
4 Month only
7 None
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 women who had any pregnancies terminated through abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth prior to the survey's birth calendar, PRECALTERMCOMP (V243) reports the completeness of information about the month and year of that pregnancy termination.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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