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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Nurse/midwife gave delivery care (C_DELNURM)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 984
End: 984
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

DOCTOR A
NURSE/MIDWIFE B

OTHER PERSON

TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT D
RELATIVE/FRIEND E

OTHER (SPECIFY) _______________X
NO ONE Y
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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 children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, DELNURM (M3B) indicates whether a nurse or midwife (categories combined or not distinguished) assisted with the child's delivery.

Some samples in the "DEL" series include categories that can be consolidated into a single response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable, such as DELNURM, while preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.

For example, a given sample might include separate categories for nurse and midwife that could be combined to create a more comprehensive response category. See Comparability for more information on the specific categories in this variable.

concept

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