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Demographic and Health Survey 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2011
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Reference ID
NPL_2011_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) [Nepal], New ERA, and ICF International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Child put on mother's chest and bare skin after birth (C_DELCHEST)

Data file: NPL2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1561
End: 1562
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
439) Where did this first check of (NAME) take place?
PROBE TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF SOURCE AND CIRCLE THE APPROPRIATE CODE.
IF UNABLE TO DETERMINE IF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SECTOR, WRITE THE NAME OF THE PLACE.

(NAME OF PLACE) _____________

HOME

YOUR HOME 11
OTHER HOME 12

GOVT. SECTOR

GOVT. HOSPITAL 21
PHC CENTER 22
HEALTH POST 23
SUB-HEALTH 24
PHC OUTREACH 25
OTHER GOVT. (SPECIFY) __________ 26

NON-GOVT. SECTOR

FPAN 31
MARIE STOPES 32
ADRA 33
UMN 34
OTHER GOVT. (SPECIFY) _________ 36

PRIVATE MED. SECTOR

PVT. HOSPITAL/CLINIC/N. HOME. 41
OTHER PRIVATE MED. (SPECIFY) __________ 46

OTHER (SPECIFY) __________ 96
Categories
Value Category
00 No
10 Yes
11 Yes, touching bare skin
12 Yes, not touching bare skin
13 Yes, don't know whether touching bare skin
97 Don't know
98 Missing
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
DELCHEST (M77) indicates whether the child was put on the bare skin of the mother's chest immediately after birth.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child health postpartum Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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