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Demographic and Health Survey 2014 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2014
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Reference ID
LSO_2014_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health [Lesotho] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Second blood pressure measurement: Diastolic (C_BP2DIA)

Data file: LSO2014-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1176
End: 1178
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
600B) May I measure your blood pressure at this time?

INTERVIEWER SIGNATURE ____
DATE ____

RESPONDENT AGREES (RECORD OUTCOME OF BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT.)
RESPONDENT DOES NOT AGREE (RECORD 994)

SYSTOLIC ____
DIASTOLIC ____
REFUSED 994
TECHNICAL PROBLEMS 995
OTHER 996
Categories
Value Category
995 Refused
996 Technical problems
997 Other
998 Missing
999 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 agreed to have blood pressure measured during the survey, BP2DIA reports the woman's second diastolic pressure measurement.

The related variable BP2SYS reports the woman's second systolic pressure measurement.

In the surveys that measured a woman's blood pressure, the interviewer measured the person's blood pressure at three different times during the survey. Because blood pressure measurements only represent an instantaneous value, the average of multiple measurements may provide more accurate results. The related variables BP1DIA and BP3DIA report the first and third diastolic measurements taken during the survey, while BPAVGDIA reports the average of the woman's diastolic measurements taken throughout the survey.

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Concept
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Blood pressure Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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