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Demographic and Health Survey 1995-1996 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 1995 - 1996
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MLI_1995_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante', de la Solidarite' et de Personnes Agees (CPS/MSSPA) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique (DNSI) [Mali], and Macro International., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Traditional birth attendant gave delivery care (C_DELTBA)

Data file: MLI1995-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1104
End: 1104
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
413. Who assisted you during the delivery of (NAME)? Anyone else?
PROBE TO GET THE TYPE OF PERSON. RECORD ALL THE PEOPLE CITED.

HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

DOCTOR A
MIDEWIFE B
OBSTETRICIAN NURSE/HEALTH TECHNICIAN C

OTHER HEALTH WORKERS

HEALTH AID D
DOULA E
TRADITIONAL BIRTHER F

OTHER PEOPLE

FRIENDS/RELATIVES G

OTHER (SPECIFY)__X
NO ONE Y
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
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 children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, DELTBA (M3G) indicates whether a traditional birth attendant assisted with the child's delivery. Wording for this response category varied across samples. See Comparability.

Women could report more than one type of healthcare (or traditional) provider.

concept

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