Encuesta de Demografía y Salud 1998

Nicaragua, 1997 - 1998

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NIC_1998_DHS_v01_M

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Instituto Nacional de Estadlsticas y Censos (INEC), Ministerio de Salud (MINSA)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Main reason not to use a meth. (v376)

Data file: REC32

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 70

End: 71

Width: 2

Range: 11 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

All women not currently using a contraceptive method and not intending to use a method in the future (V362 = 5).

Categories

Value	Category
11	Not married
20	FERTILITY-RELATED
22	Infrequent sex
23	Menopausal, hyster.
24	Subfecund, infecund
26	Wants more children
30	OPPOSITION TO USE
31	Respondent opposed
32	Husband opposed
33	Others opposed
34	Religious prohibit.
40	LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
41	Knows no method
42	Knows no source
50	METHOD-RELATED
51	Health concerns
52	Fear side effects
53	Lack of access
54	Cost too much
55	Inconvenient to use
56	Interfere with body
61	Fatalist
96	Other
98	DK

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

Reason the respondent does not intend to use a method of contraception in the future. The coding categories have changed in DHS III from those used in DHS II.

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