Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2006

Reference ID

MLI_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante' (CPS/MS) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique du Ministere de l'Economie, de l'Industrie et du Commerce (DNSI/MEIC) [Mali], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

May 01, 2020

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Cause of fistula: Excessive births (C_FSCAUSEXCESS)

Data file: MLI2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1227

End: 1227

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

926A. What, in your opinion, are the causes of this illness?

WITCHCRAFT OR MYSTICAL CHARMS A
EVIL SPELLS, FATE B
TOO YOUNG TO GIVE BIRTH C
TOO OLD TO GIVE BIRTH D
TOO THIN TO SUPPORT A PREGNANCY E
TOO MANY SUCCESSIVE BIRTHS F
FREQUENT ILLNESS DURING THE PREGNANCY G
BIRTH OF A LARGE BABY H
BIRTH AT HOME WITHOUT MEDICAL ASSISTANCE I
WILL OF GOD J
OTHERS (SPECIFY) __ X
DOESN'T KNOW Y

Value	Category
0	No
1	Yes
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

FSCAUSEXCESS indicates whether the woman reported too many successive births to be a cause of fistula, in response to an open-ended question about the causes of fistula.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Beliefs about fistula Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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