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Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud 1991

Dominican Republic, 1991
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DOM_1991_DHS_v01_M
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Instituto de Estudios de Población y Desarrollo (IEPD), Oficina Nacional de Planificacion (ONAPLAN)
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Contraceptive use before cal. (v385)

Data file: REC32

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 94
End: 94
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 5
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
All women.
Categories
Value Category
1 Use in 1st month
2 Use in interv. prior
3 Use in earlier intv.
4 Only after 1st month
5 Never used
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.

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Notes
Use of contraception prior to the calendar indicates whether the respondent: 1) was using a method in the first month of the calendar; 2) was not using in the first month of the calendar, but used in the interval prior to the calendar, 3) was not using in the first month of the calendar and had not used in the interval prior to the calendar, but had used in an earlier interval, 4) had only used since the start of the calendar, 5) had never used.

Variables V385 to V392 refer to the use/nonuse of contraception in the interval between the last birth prior to the start of the calendar and the start of the calendar.
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