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Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 1999
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GIN_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan et de la Coopération [Guinea] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Midwife gave delivery care (Guinea) (W_DELGN2_ALL)

Data file: GIN1999-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1059
End: 1059
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
413. Who assisted you with the delivery of (NAME)? Anyone else?
PROBE TO OBTAIN THE TYPE OF PERSON AND RECORD ALL PERSONS ASSISTING.

HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

DOCTOR A
NURSE/MIDWIFE B
AUXILIARY MIDWIFE C

OTHER PERSON

TRAINED MIDWIFE/MATRON (NURSE) E
TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT F
FRIENDS/RELATIVES/NEIGHBORS G

OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
NO ONE Y
Categories
Value Category
1 DELGN2_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 five years, DELGN2_ALL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported a midwife gave delivery care for a recent birth. This response category is country-specific to Guinea.

DELGN2_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELGN2_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELGN2_02, DELGN2_03, DELGN2_04, DELGN2_05, and DELGN2_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELGN2_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

Some samples in the "DEL" 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.

DELGN2_ALL is combined with DELGN1_ALL (nurse) for the 1999, 2005, and 2012 Guinea samples to create the standard variable DELNURM_ALL. IPUMS-DHS users interested in using DELGN2_ALL are encouraged to review DELNURM_ALL for this more comprehensive response category.

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