National Family Health Survey 1998-1999

India, 1998 - 1999

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IND_1998_DHS_v01_M

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International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Main reason not using a method (s357)

Data file: REC91

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 371

End: 372

Width: 2

Range: 11 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
11	Husband away
20	FERTILITY-RELATED REASONS
21	Not having sex
22	Infrequent sex
23	Menopausal/had hysterectomy
24	Subfecond/infecund
25	Postpartum/breastfeeding
26	Wants more children
30	OPPOSITION TO USE
31	Opposed to family planning
32	Husband opposed
33	Other people opposed
34	Against religion
40	LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
41	Knows no method
42	Knows no source
50	METHOD-RELATED REASONS
51	Health concerns
52	Worry about side effects
53	Hard to get method
54	Costs too much
55	Inconvenient
56	Afraid of sterilisation
57	Don't like existing methods
96	Other
98	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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