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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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Method of periodic abstinence (B_FPRHYMETH)

Data file: ZAF1998-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 584
End: 584
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
323 How do you determine which days of your monthly cycle not to have sexual relations?

BASED ON CALENDAR 01
BASED ON BODY TEMPERATURE 02
BASED ON CERVICAL MUCUS
(BILLINGS METHOD) 03
BASED ON BODY TEMPERATURE
AND CERVICAL MUCUS 04
NO SPECIFIC SYSTEM 05
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____________________96
Categories
Value Category
1 Calendar
2 Body temperature
3 Cervical mucus
4 Body temp and mucus
5 No specific system
6 Other
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
FPRHYMETH (V314) reports how the woman determined which days to abstain from sexual intercourse to practice periodic abstinence (rhythm) as a means of delaying or avoiding pregnancy.

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

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Recent use of family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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