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Demographic and Health Survey 1988-1989 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 1988 - 1989
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UGA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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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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Person who gave delivery care (W_DELPER_ALL)

Data file: UGA1988-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 517
End: 517
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
405) Who assisted with the delivery of (NAME)? PROBE FOR THE TYPE OF PERSON AND RECORD THE MOST QUALIFIED.

DOCTOR 1
TRAINED NURSE/MIDWIFE 2
TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT 3
RELATIVE 4
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____________ 5
NO ONE 6
Categories
Value Category
1 DELPER_ALL available
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 gave birth in the last three to five years, DELPER _ALL (M3_x) indicates the type of person who assisted with the delivery.

DELPER_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELPER_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELPER_02, DELPER_03, DELPER_04, DELPER_05, and DELPER_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELPER_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then DELPER_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

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