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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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Ever had pregnancy terminate via abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth (C_PREGTERMIN)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 332
End: 332
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
208 Women sometimes have pregnancies that do not result in a live born child. That is, a pregnancy can end very early, in a miscarriage or an abortion or the child can be born dead. Have you had any such pregnancy that did not result in a live birth?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 210)
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
0 No
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
PREGTERMIN (V228) indicates whether the woman ever had a pregnancy that was terminated due to miscarriage, abortion, or stillbirth, and did not result in a live birth.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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