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Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Angola, 2015 - 2016
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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
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Child put on mother's chest and bare skin after birth (W_DELCHEST_ALL)

Data file: AGO2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1281
End: 1281
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
435) Immediately after birth, was (NAME) put directly on the bare skin of your chest?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
1 DELCHEST_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
DELCHEST_ALL (M77_x) indicates whether the respondent's child was put on the bare skin of the mother's chest immediately after birth.

DELCHEST_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELCHEST_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELCHEST_02, DELCHEST_03, DELCHEST_04, DELCHEST_05, and DELCHEST_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELCHEST_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 DELCHEST_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Some surveys, specified in the Comparability section, collected this information for the last-born child only (DELCHEST_01).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Postpartum care Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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