Demographic and Health Survey 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 2012

Reference ID

NER_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Institut National de la Statistique (INS), Ministère des Finances [Niger] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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How fistula was contracted (C_FSHOWGOT)

Data file: NER2012-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1022

End: 1023

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1107) In your opinion, how did you get this illness?

WITCHCRAFT OR MYSTICAL ENCHANTMENT 01
BAD DESTINY/FATALIST 02
TOO YOUNG TO GIVE BIRTH 03
TOO OLD TO GIVE BIRTH 04
TOO THIN FOR PREGNANCY 05
TOO MANY SUCCESSIVE DELIVERIES 06
FREQUENT ILLNESS DURING PREGNANCY 07
DELIVERY OF LARGE BABY 08
HOME DELIVERY WITHOUT MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 09
LONG LABOR 10
UP TO GOD 11
OTHERS (SPECIFY) 96
DON'T KNOW 98

Categories

Value	Category
10	Place of delivery/home
20	Pregnancy and delivery conditions
21	Big child at birth/still birth/first birth
22	Too young for childbirth
23	Too old for childbirth
24	Too thin to support the pregnancy
25	Too many successive childbirths
26	Frequently ill during pregnancy
27	Prolonged labor in childbirth
30	Other specified reasons
31	God's Will
32	Female circumcision
33	Witchcraft or sorcery
34	Fate or bad luck
40	Other
98	Don't Know
99	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 women who have experienced fistula, FSHOWGOT reports the woman's opinion of how she contracted the condition (with a single answer recorded for each respondent).

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Fistula, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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