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Demographic and Health Survey 2011-12 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2011 - 2012
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BEN_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère du Développement, de l’Analyse Économique et de la Prospective, Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE) [Bénin] and IFC International., Minnesota Population Center
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Knows about lactational amenorrhea as a method of family planning (W_FPKNOLAM)

Data file: BEN2011-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 635
End: 636
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
301) Now I would like to talk about family planning-the various ways or methods that a couple can use to delay or avoid a pregnancy. Have you ever heard of (method)?

01) FEMALE STERILIZATION. PROBE: Women can have an operation to avoid having any more children.

YES 1
NO 2

02) MALE STERILIZATION. PROBE: Men can have an operation to avoid having any more children.

YES 1
NO 2

03) IUD. PROBE: Women can have a coil placed inside them by a doctor or a nurse.

YES 1
NO 2

04) INJECTABLES. PROBE: Women can have an injection by a heath provider that stops them from becoming pregnant for one or more months.

YES 1
NO 2

05) IMPLANTS. PROBE: Women can have one or more small rods placed in their upper arm by a doctor or nurse which can prevent pregnancy for one or more years.

YES 1
NO 2

06) PILL. PROBE: Women can take a pill every day to avoid becoming pregnant.

YES 1
NO 2

07) CONDOM. PROBE: Men can put a rubber sheath on their penis before sexual intercourse.

YES 1
NO 2

08) FEMALE CONDOM. PROBE: Women can place a sheath in their vagina before sexual intercourse.

YES 1
NO 2

09) LACTATIONAL AMENORRHEA METHOD (LAM).

YES 1
NO 2

10) RHYTHM METHOD. PROBE: To avoid pregnancy, women do not have sexual intercourse on the days of the month they think they can get pregnant.

YES 1
NO 2

11) WITHDRAWAL. PROBE: Men can be careful and pull out before climax.

YES 1
NO 2

12) EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION. PROBE: As an emergency measure, within three days after they have unprotected sexual intercourse, women can take special pills to prevent pregnancy.

YES 1
NO 2

13) Have you heard of any other ways or methods that women or men can use to avoid pregnancy? RECORD UP TO TWO METHODS

SPECIFY____

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
00 No
10 Yes
11 Yes, spontaneously
12 Yes, probed
97 Method not asked about at all
98 Missing
99 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
FPKNOLAM (V304_13) indicates whether the woman knew about the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) as a method for family planning. The complementary variable FPEVUSLAM indicates whether the woman had ever used LAM as a means to delay or avoid a pregnancy.

Some samples differentiate between spontaneous and probed affirmative responses; see Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Knowledge of family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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