Demographic and Health Survey 2018

Zambia, 2018 - 2019

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Reference ID

ZMB_2018_DHS_v01_M

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Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats), Ministry of Health

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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NA - Reason for not delivering most recent child in health facility (mv251)

Data file: MREC22

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 38

End: 39

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 98

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
1	Cost too much
2	Facility closed
3	Too far/no transportation
4	Don't trust facility/poor quality service
5	No female provider
6	Not the first child
7	Mother did not think it necessary
8	Respondent did not think it necessary
9	Family did not think it necessary
96	Other
98	Don't know

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.

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Notes

Youngest child - Reason for not delivering in health facility. This question is no longer part of the DHS VII core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in the DHS VII recode.

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