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[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016
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IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Knows about lactational amenorrhea for FP (M_FPKNOLAMMN)

Data file: IND2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 540
End: 541
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
301. Now I would like to talk about family planning-the various ways or methods that a couple can use to delay or avoid a pregnancy.
Have you ever heard of (METHOD)?

01. FEMALE STERILIZATION
Women can have an operation to avoid having any more children.

YES 1
NO 2

02. MALE STERILIZATION
Men can have an operation to avoid having any more children.

YES 1
NO 2

03. IUD OR PPIUD Women can have a loop or coil placed inside them by a doctor or a nurse.

YES 1
NO 2

04. INJECTABLES
Women can have an injection by a health provider that stops them from becoming pregnant for one or more months.

YES 1
NO 2

05. PILL
Women can take a pill every day or every week to avoid becoming pregnant.

YES 1
NO 2

06. CONDOM OR NIRODH
Men can put a rubber sheath on their penis before sexual intercourse.

YES 1
NO 2

07. FEMALE CONDOM. Women can place a sheath in their vagina before sexual intercourse.

YES 1
NO 2

08. LACTATIONAL AMENORRHOEA METHOD (LAM)

YES 1
NO 2

09. RHYTHM METHOD. Every month that a woman is sexually active she can avoid pregnancy by not having sexual intercourse on the days of the month she is most likely to get pregnant.

YES 1
NO 2

10. WITHDRAWAL
Men can be careful and pull out before climax.

YES 1
NO 2

11. EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
Women can take pills up to three days after sexual intercourse to avoid becoming pregnant.

YES 1
NO 2

12. Have you heard of any other ways or methods that women or men can use to avoid pregnancy?

YES (SPECIFY)________1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
00 No
10 Yes
11 Yes, spontaneously
12 Yes, probed
97 Method not asked about at all
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
FPKNOLAMMN (MV304_13) indicates whether the man knows about the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) as a method for family planning. Some samples differentiate between spontaneous and probed affirmative responses; see Comparability. In probing questions, LAM is often described by the following text:

Up to six months after childbirth, before the menstrual period has returned, women use a method requiring frequent breastfeeding day and night.

concept

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