Demographic and Health Survey 1988-1989 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 1988 - 1989

Reference ID

UGA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health with the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Department of Geography (Makerere University), Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (Makerere University) [Uganda] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Person who gave antenatal care (current pregnancy) (C_ANCARENOW)

Data file: UGA1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 506

End: 507

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

223) Whom did you see?

PROBE FOR TYPE OF PERSON AND RECORD MOST QUALIFIED.

DOCTOR 1
TRAINED NURSE/MIDWIFE 2
TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT 3
OTHER (SPECIFY) ________ 4

Categories

Value	Category
00	No one
10	Doctor
20	Nurse, midwife, birth attendant
21	Trained nurse
22	Trained midwife
23	Nurse, midwife
24	Birth attendant
25	Traditional birth attendant/matron/midwife
30	Unspecified personnel at health center
40	Other
97	Don't know
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

For women who are currently pregnant, ANCARENOW (V403) reports the type of health care personnel (if any) who gave prenatal care for the current pregnancy. Response categories vary across samples. See Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Maternal antenatal care, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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