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Demographic and Health Survey 1994 - IPUMS Subset

Côte d'Ivoire, 1994
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Reference ID
CIV_1994_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère Délégué Auprès du Premier Ministre, Chargé de l'Economie, des Finances et du Plan [Côte d'Ivoire] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Current FP use by method type (folk, traditional, modern) (C_FPTYPNOW)

Data file: CIV1994-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 517
End: 518
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
314) Which method are you using?
314A) CIRCLE '07' FOR FEMALE STERILIZATION

PILL 01
IUD 02 (GO TO 321)
INJECTABLES 03 (GO TO 321)
IMPLANTS 04 (GO TO 321)
DIAPHRAGM/FOAM/JELLY 05 (GO TO 321)
CONDOM 06 (GO TO 321)
FEMALE STERILIZATION 07 (GO TO 321)
MALE STERILIZATION 08 (GO TO 321)
PERIODIC ABSTINENCE 09 (GO TO 324)
WITHDRAWAL 10 (GO TO 324)
OTHER (SPECIFY)____ 11(GO TO 324)
Categories
Value Category
00 No method
10 Folkloric or traditional method
11 Folkloric method
12 Traditional method
20 Modern method
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
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.

Description

Definition
FPTYPNOW (V313) indicates whether the woman is currently using a modern, traditional, or folkloric method of contraception.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

In the DHS, modern methods are the Pill, IUD, injections, diaphragm, condom, female sterilization, male sterilization, implants, female condom, foam/jelly, lactational amenorrhea, and emergency contraception. Traditional methods are periodic abstinence (rhythm), withdrawal, and abstinence. Folkloric methods are the category "other" and country-specific methods (such as herbs or amulet), which vary across samples.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Recent use of family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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