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Demographic and Health Survey 2013

Namibia, 2013
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NAM_2013_DHS_v01_M
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Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS)
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Flag for abstinence (m29)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Valid: 5046
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 28
Range: 0 - 4
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No flag 5024
99.6%
1 > interval 13
0.3%
2 > interval by 1 month 8
0.2%
4 During pregnancy in calendar 1
0%
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.

Others

Notes
Flag variable for postpartum abstinence, indicating types of problems found in editing the duration of postpartum abstinence. Codes for these flag variables are as follows:
0 - No problem.
1 - Duration exceeds interval between birth and succeeding birth (for amenorrhea and abstinence) or date of interview (for breastfeeding).
2 - Duration exceeds interval but only by one month. In DHS I the duration would have been modified to fit the interval in this case. This modification is made to the calculated months of postpartum amenorrhea (M7), postpartum abstinence (M9) or breastfeeding (M5) starting from DHS III.
3 - Duration of breastfeeding exceeds the age at death of the child.
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