Definition
For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, ANCAREMG1_ALL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported that a nurse gave antenatal care for a birth. This response category is country-specific to Madagascar.
ANCAREMG1_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (ANCAREMG1_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., ANCAREMG1_02, ANCAREMG1_03, ANCAREMG1_04, ANCAREMG1_05, and ANCAREMG1_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If ANCAREMG1_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.
Some samples in the "ANCARE" 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.
ANCAREMG1_ALL is combined with ANCAREMG2_ALL (midwife) for the 1992 and 1997 Madagascar samples to make the standard variable ANCARENURM_ALL). IPUMS-DHS users interested in using ANCAREMG1_ALL are encouraged to review ANCARENURM_ALL for this more comprehensive response category.