Definition
For women who gave birth in the last 5 years and who received antenatal care during a pregnancy, ANCEG2_ALL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported receiving such care at a public "rural hospital." This response category is country-specific to Egypt.
ANCEG2_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (ANCEG2_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., ANCEG2_02, ANCEG2_03, ANCEG2_04, ANCEG2_05, and ANCEG2_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If ANCEG2_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.
Some samples in the "ANC" series include categories that can be consolidated into a single response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable while preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.
ANCEG2_ALL is combined with ANCEG1_ALL (public urban hospital) in ANCPUBHOS_01 (all public hospitals) for the 2005, 2008, and 2014 Egypt samples. IPUMS-DHS users interested in using ANCEG2_ALL are encouraged to review ANCPUBHOS_01 for a more comprehensive response category.