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Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2015 - 2016
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Reference ID
MWI_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Statistical Office (NSO) [Malawi] and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Duration of pregnancy (B_PREGDUR)

Data file: MWI2016-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1498
End: 1499
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
227. How many months pregnant are you?

RECORD NUMBER OF COMPLETED MONTHS.

C: ENTER 'P'S IN THE CALENDAR, BEGINNING WITH THE MONTH OF INTERVIEW AND FOR THE TOTAL NUMBER OF COMPLETED MONTHS.

MONTHS ___
Categories
Value Category
04 4 months
05 5 months
06 6 months
07 7 months
08 8 months
09 9 months
10 10 months
11 11 months
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
PREGDUR (B20) reports the duration of the pregnancy (in months) before the child was born, for children born in the three to five years before the survey.

concept

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