Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Angola, 2015 - 2016

Reference ID

AGO_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) [Angola], Ministério da Saúde (MINSA) [Angola], Ministério do Planeamento e do Desenvolvimento Territorial (MINPLAN) [Angola] and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Created on

May 01, 2020

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Timing for caesarean section decision (W_DELCESRDEC_ALL)

Data file: AGO2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1214

End: 1214

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

434) When was the decision made to have the caesarean section? Was it before or after your labor pains started?

BEFORE 1
AFTER 2

Value	Category
1	DELCESRDEC_ALL available

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the last three to five years and who delivered by caesarian section, DELCESRDEC_ALL (M17A_x) indicates whether the decision to deliver by caesarian section was made before or after labor began.

DELCESRDEC_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELCESRDEC_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELCESRDEC_02, DELCESRDEC_03, DELCESRDEC_04, DELCESRDEC_05, and DELCESRDEC_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELCESRDEC_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then DELCESRDEC_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

concept

Concept

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

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