Definition
For women who gave birth in the last five years, DELGN1_ALL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported a nurse gave delivery care for a recent birth. This response category is country-specific to Guinea.
DELGN1_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELGN1_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELGN1_02, DELGN1_03, DELGN1_04, DELGN1_05, and DELGN1_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELGN1_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.
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.
DELGN1_ALL is combined with DELGN2_ALL (midwife) for the 1999, 2005, and 2012 Guinea samples to create the standard variable DELNURM_ALL. IPUMS-DHS users interested in using DELGN1_ALL are encouraged to review DELNURM_ALL for this more comprehensive response category.