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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
Producer(s)
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Type of pregnancy termination (W_PREGTERMTYP)

Data file: IND2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 408
End: 409
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
234. C: Did that pregnancy end in a miscarriage, an abortion, or a stillbirth?

CIRCLE RESPONSE CODE AND ENTER 'M' FOR MISCARRIAGE, 'A' FOR ABORTION, OR 'S' FOR STILLBIRTH IN COLUMN 1 OF THE CALENDAR IN MONTH IN WHICH PREGNANCY WAS TERMINATED.

MISCARRIAGE 1
ABORTION 2
STILLBIRTH 3
Categories
Value Category
10 Stillbirth
20 Miscarriage
30 Abortion
40 Other
41 Menstrual regulation
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
PREGTERMTYP reports how the respondent's most recent pregnancy termination ended: as a stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion, or, in some samples, via "menstrual regulation" (see Comparability).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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