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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1998
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Reference ID
GHA_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Place of delivery (W_DELPL_ALL)

Data file: GHA1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 842
End: 842
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
413.Where did you go to give birth to (NAME)?

HOME

RESP'S HOME 11
TBA'S HOME 12
OTHER HOME 13

PUBLIC SECTOR

GVT. HOSPITAL/CLINIC 21
GVT. HEALTH CENTRE 22
GVT. HEALTH POST 23
OTHER PUBLIC (SPECIFY)______ 26

PRIVATE SECTOR

HOSPITAL/CLINIC 31
MATERNITY HOME 32
OTHER PRIVATE (SPECIFY)______ 36

OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 96
Categories
Value Category
1 DELPL_ALL available
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
For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, DELPL_ALL (M15_x) reports where she delivered her child. Response categories vary across samples. See Comparability.

DELPL_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELPL_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELPL_02, DELPL_03, DELPL_04, DELPL_05, and DELPL_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELPL_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then DELPL_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Maternal delivery care, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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