National Family Health Survey 2015-2016

India, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

IND_2015_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Feb 07, 2018

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Current contraceptive by method type (mv313)

Data file: MREC32

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 17

End: 17

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
0	No method
1	Folkloric method
2	Traditional method
3	Modern method
8	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

Type of contraceptive method categorizes the current contraceptive method as either a modern method, a traditional method, or a folkloric method.

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