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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1998
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Reference ID
GHA_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Midwife gave delivery care (Ghana) (C_DELGH2)

Data file: GHA1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1086
End: 1086
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
414. Who assisted with the delivery of (NAME)?
Anyone else?

PROBE FOR THE TYPE OF PERSONS AND RECORD ALL PERSONS ASSISTING.

HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

DOCTOR A
NURSE B
MIDWIFE C

OTHER PERSON

TRAINED TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT D
UNTRAINED TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT E

OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
NO ONE Y
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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
For children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, DELGH2 indicates whether a midwife assisted with the child's delivery. This response category is country-specific to Ghana.

Some samples in the "DEL" series include multiple categories that can be consolidated into a single broad response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable, while also preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.

DELGH2 is combined with DELGH1 (nurse) for the 1993 and 1998 Ghana samples to create the standard variable DELNURM. IPUMS-DHS users interested in using DELGH2 are encouraged to review DELNURM for this more comprehensive response category.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child delivery care, CS Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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