Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 1998

Reference ID

KEN_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Council for Population and Development [Kenya], Central Bureau of Statistics [Kenya], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Complications at delivery: High fever (W_DELPROBFEV_ALL)

Data file: KEN1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 950

End: 950

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

414. Around the time of the birth of (NAME), did you have any of the following problems:
Long labor, that is, did your regular contractions last more than 12 hours?
Excessive bleeding that was so much that you feared it was life threatening?
A high fever with bad smelling vaginal discharge?
Convulsions not caused by fever?

LABOR MORE THAN 12 HOURS

YES 1
NO 2

EXCESSIVE BLEEDING

YES 1
NO 2

FEVER/BAD SMELLING VAG. DISCHARGE

YES 1
NO 2

CONVULSIONS

YES 1
NO 2

Value	Category
1	DELPROBFEV_ALL available

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, DELPROBFEV_ALL (M32_x) indicates whether they experienced a high fever with bad smelling vaginal discharge (around the time of the birth).

DELPROBFEV_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELPROBFEV_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELPROBFEV_02, DELPROBFEV_03, DELPROBFEV_04, DELPROBFEV_05, and DELPROBFEV_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELPROBFEV_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then DELPROBFEV_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Some surveys, specified in the Comparability section, collected this information for the last-born child only.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Maternal delivery care, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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