Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016

Malawi, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

MWI_2015_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

National Statistical Office (NSO)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Mar 23, 2017

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First source for current method (v3a07)

Data file: REC32

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 115

End: 116

Width: 2

Range: 10 - 98

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Women who are currently using a contraceptive method excluding lactational amenorrhea, periodic abstinence or withdrawal (V312 <> 0, 8 or 9) and the base for the questions on informed choice.

Categories

Value	Category
10	PUBLIC SECTOR
11	Government hospital
12	Government health center
13	Government health post / outreach
14	Mobile clinic
15	HSA
16	CBDA / door to door
17	Other public sector
20	Other private medical
21	Private hospital / clinic
22	Pharmacy
23	Private doctor
24	Private mobile clinic
25	Private CBDA / door to door
26	CHAM/mission hospital
27	CHAM/mission health center
28	CHAM/mission mobile clinic
29	CHAM/mission door to door
30	OTHER SOURCE
31	Shop
32	Church
33	Friend / relative
34	BLM
35	MACRO
36	Youth drop in center
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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Notes

First source for current method. This variable is grouped into 4 major categories:
- 10 Public sector
- 20 Private medical
- 30 Other private
- 96 Other

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