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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1998
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Reference ID
NER_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
CARE International [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Complications at delivery: Convulsions (C_DELPROCON)

Data file: NER1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1113
End: 1113
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
414) At the time of (NAME)'s birth did you have any of the following problems:

A long labor, in other words regular contractions lasting more than 12 hours?
Enough bleeding that you thought that your life was in danger?
A high fever accompanied with bad smelling vaginal discharge?
Convulsions not caused by fever?

LONG LABOR

YES 1
NO 2

A LOT OF BLEEDING

YES 1
NO 2

HIGH FEVER WITH VAGINAL DISCHARGE

YES 1
NO 2

CONVULSIONS

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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, DELPROCON (M33) indicates whether the child's mother experienced "convulsions not caused by fever" near the time of the child's birth.

concept

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