Definition
For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, ANCAREMA2_ALL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported that a midwife gave antenatal care for a birth. This response category is country-specific to Morocco.
ANCAREMA2_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (ANCAREMA2_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., ANCAREMA2_02, ANCAREMA2_03, ANCAREMA2_04, ANCAREMA2_05, and ANCAREMA2_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If ANCAREMA2_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.
Some samples in the "ANCARE" series include multiple categories that can be consolidated into a single broad response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable, while also preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.
ANCAREMA2_ALL is combined with ANCAREMA1_ALL (nurse) for the 1992 and 2003 Morocco samples to make the standard variable ANCARENURM_ALL (nurse/midwife). IPUMS-DHS users interested in using ANCAREMA2_ALL are encouraged to review ANCARENURM_ALL for this more comprehensive response category.
