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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How fistula was contracted (W_FSHOWGOT)

Data file: MLI2006-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1216

End: 1217

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

929. If yes, how, in your opinion, did you contract it?

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Categories

Value	Category
10	Place of delivery/home
20	Pregnancy and delivery conditions
21	Big child at birth/still birth/first birth
22	Too young for childbirth
23	Too old for childbirth
24	Too thin to support the pregnancy
25	Too many successive childbirths
26	Frequently ill during pregnancy
27	Prolonged labor in childbirth
30	Other specified reasons
31	God's Will
32	Female circumcision
33	Witchcraft or sorcery
34	Fate or bad luck
40	Other
98	Don't Know
99	NIU (not in universe)

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 have experienced fistula, FSHOWGOT reports the woman's opinion of how she contracted the condition (with a single answer recorded for each respondent).

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

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Fistula, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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