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National Family Health Survey 2015-2016

India, 2015 - 2016
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Reference ID
IND_2015_DHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Marriage to first birth interval (months) (v221)

Data file: REC22

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 54
End: 56
Width: 3
Range: 0 - 996
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Ever-married women who have had one or more births (V501 > 0 and V201 > 0).
Categories
Value Category
996 Negative interval
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.

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Notes
Interval between the first marriage and first birth in months. If the first birth was prior to the first marriage then this variable is coded 996 "Negative interval."
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