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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2006
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BEN_2006_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE) in collaboration with the Programme National de Lutte contre le Sida (PNLS) [Bénin] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Mother's health checked after discharge/home delivery (C_DELPPCHKA)

Data file: BEN2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1501
End: 1501
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
428B) After you were discharged, after the birth of (NAME), did any heath care provider, traditional birth attendant, or auxiliary midwife check on your health?
[FOR LAST BIRTH ONLY]

YES 1 (GO TO 430)
NO 2 (GO TO 433)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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 last-born children under age 5 who were either a) delivered at home/away from a medical facility, or b) delivered at a medical facility where their mother did not receive a health check before being discharged, DELPPCHKA (M66) indicates whether the child's mother received a postpartum health check sometime after the delivery of the child.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child health postpartum Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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