[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Baby postnatal check within 2 months (W_PNBABCK_ALL)

Data file: IND2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1524

End: 1524

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

470. In the two months after (NAME) was born, did any health personnel, ASHA or a traditional birth attendant check on his/her health? [ASK FOR MOST RECENT BIRTH ONLY]

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 474)
DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO 474)

Value	Category
1	PNBABCK_ALL available

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, PNBABCK_ALL (M70_x) indicates whether the woman's baby had a postnatal check within 2 months of delivery.

For most surveys, this information on postnatal checks for the child is collected for only the last-born child (PNBABCK_01). For a minority of samples, noted in the Comparability section, the information was collected for all births within the 3 to 5 years before the survey.

To accommodate those surveys that collected this information on multiple births, PNBABCK_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (PNBABCK_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., PNBABCK_02, PNBABCK_03, PNBABCK_04, PNBABCK_05, and PNBABCK_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If PNBABCK_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables--when available--are included in a researcher's data file.

In some 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, in a survey that collected this information for more than the most recent birth, no woman had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then PNBABCK_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Postpartum care Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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