World Health Survey 2003

Malawi, 2003

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Reference ID

MWI_2003_WHS_v01_M

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Collection(s)

WHO’s Multi-Country Studies Programmes

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Oct 17, 2013

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Pregnancy checked (q6400)

Data file: WHS-Malawi_F5

Overview

Valid: 1467

Invalid: 3839

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 1439

End: 1442

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

When you were pregnant with (NAME), did you see a health care professional to have your pregnancy checked?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	1391	94.8%
5	No	76	5.2%
8	Do not know	0	0%
Sysmiss		3839

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.

Interviewer instructions

This question is only asked to women who had a live birth in the last five years. In order to detect problems association with pregnancy and childbearing, all pregnant women should have routine antenatal check-ups. This question refers to any visits to a health care provider for antenatal care during a woman's pregnancy (specifically to have her pregnancy checked, not for other reasons).

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Questions to be asked to women of reproductive age (18-49 years) with a live birth in last 5 years only.

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