Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997

Reference ID

MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Démographie et des Statistiques Sociales, Institut National de la Statistique [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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Midwife gave delivery care (Madagascar) (W_DELMG2_ALL)

Data file: MDG1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 881

End: 881

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

413. Who assisted you with the delivery of (NAME)? Anyone else?
PROBE FOR THE TYPE(S) OF PERSON(S) AND RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

HEALTH PERSONNEL

DOCTOR A
NURSE B
MIDWIFE C

OTHER PERSON

TRADITIONAL BIRTH ASSISTANT D
RELATIVE/FRIEND E

OTHER (SPECIFY) _______ X
NO ONE Y

Value	Category
1	DELMG2_ALL available

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, DELMG2_ALL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported a midwife gave delivery care for a recent birth. This response category is country-specific to Madagascar.

DELMG2_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELMG2_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELMG2_02, DELMG2_03, DELMG2_04, DELMG2_05, and DELMG2_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELMG2_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.

DELMG2_ALL is combined with DELMG1_ALL (nurse) for the 1992 and 1997 Madagascar samples to create the standard variable DELNURM_ALL. IPUMS-DHS users interested in using DELMG2_ALL are encouraged to review DELNURM_ALL for this more comprehensive response category.

concept

Concept

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

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