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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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Maternity history index to birth history (C_MIDX)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 166
End: 166
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
402 ENTER THE NAME, LINE NUMBER, AND SURVIVAL STATUS OF EACH BIRTH SINCE JANUARY 1993 IN THE TABLE.
ASK THE QUESTIONS ABOUT ALL OF THESE BIRTHS. BEGIN WITH THE LAST BIRTH.
(IF THERE ARE MORE THAN 2 BIRTHS, USE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONNAIRES).
Now I would like to ask you some questions about your pregnancies and the health of all your children born in the last five years.
(We will talk about one child at a time.)

403 LINE NUMBER FROM Q214

LINE NUMBER _______

404 FROM Q218 AND Q221

NAME _____
ALIVE (GO TO 405)
DEAD (GO TO 405)
Categories
Value Category
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
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
MIDX reports the young child's line number in the woman respondent's maternity history. For children who are included in the maternity history (pregnancy and postnatal care section of the questionnaire, normally children under age 3, 4, or 5), the value of MIDX is the same as the child's line number in the birth history (BIDX).

According to the DHS Recode Manuals, "For twins, the information in their entries will be identical for all variables relating to prenatal care."

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Identifiers Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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