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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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Method of periodic abstinence (W_FPRHYMETH)

Data file: GIN1999-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 530
End: 530
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
323. How do you determine which days of your monthly cycle to not have sexual relations?

BASED ON CALENDAR 01 (GO TO 326)
BASED ON BODY TEMPERATURE 02 (GO TO 326)
BASED ON CERVICAL MUCUS (BILLINGS METHOD) 03 (GO TO 326)
BASED ON BODY TEMPERATURE AND MUCUS 04 (GO TO 326)
NO SPECIFIC SYSTEM 05 (GO TO 326)
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ 96 (GO TO 326)
Categories
Value Category
1 Calendar
2 Body temperature
3 Cervical mucus
4 Body temp and mucus
5 No specific system
6 Other
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
FPRHYMETH (V314) reports how the woman determined which days to abstain from sexual intercourse to practice periodic abstinence (rhythm) as a means of delaying or avoiding pregnancy.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

concept

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