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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997
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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)
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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
Categories
Value Category
1 DELMG2_ALL available
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
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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