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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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Reference ID
ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Thinks abortion is legal (B_ABORTLEGAL)

Data file: ZAF1998-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 546
End: 546
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
338 I would like to ask you a question about the law on abortion in South Africa. Does the present law allow a woman in early pregnancy, which is up to 12 weeks, to have an abortion?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
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
ABORTLEGAL indicates whether the respondent believes abortion is legal. Whether abortion is actually legal will vary across time and location, as well as the duration and circumstances of the pregnancy.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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