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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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Reference ID
LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Traditional healer gave delivery care (Lesotho) (C_DELLS3)

Data file: LSO2009-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1418
End: 1418
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
435 Who assisted with the delivery of (NAME)? Anyone else?
PROBE FOR THE TYPE OF PERSON AND RECORD ALL PERSONS ASSISTING.
IF RESPONDENT SAYS NO ONE ASSISTED, PROBE TO DETERMINE WHETHER ANY ADULTS WERE PRESENT AT THE DELIVERY.

HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

DOCTOR A
NURSE/MIDWIFE B
COM. HEALH WORKER C

OTHER PERSON

TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT E
TRADITIONAL HEALER F
RELATIVE/FRIEND G
OTHER X

NO ONE ASSISTED Y
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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 children born in the five years preceding the survey, DELLS3 indicates whether a traditional healer assisted with the child's delivery. This response category is country-specific to Lesotho.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child delivery care, CS Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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