Demographic and Health Survey 1988

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1988 - 1989

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Reference ID

EGY_1988_DHS_v01_M

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National Population Council (NPC)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Reason stopped using prev. met (v349)

Data file: REC32

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 83

End: 84

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

Current users of contraception who used a contraceptive method (since the last birth) prior to the current method (V312 < > 0 and V341 > 0).

Categories

Value	Category
1	To get pregnant
2	Method failed
4	Husband disapproved
5	OTH relatives disapp
6	Religious prohibit.
7	Side effects for res
8	Side effects for chi
11	Difficult to obtain
12	Costs too much
13	Inconvenient to use
14	Decided to use anot.
15	Fatalistic
16	Infrequent sex
19	Other
98	Not sure /don't know

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

Main reason the respondent stopped using the method prior to the current method. Codes are country specific.

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