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Demographic and Health Survey 2017-2018 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 2017 - 2018
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Reference ID
PAK_2017_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS) [Pakistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Created on
May 01, 2020
Last modified
May 14, 2020
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  • PAK2017-W.dat

Child put on mother's chest and bare skin after birth (C_DELCHEST)

Data file: PAK2017-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1469
End: 1470
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
434A) Was (NAME)'s bare skin touching your bare skin?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
00 No
10 Yes
11 Yes, touching bare skin
12 Yes, not touching bare skin
13 Yes, don't know whether touching bare skin
97 Don't know
98 Missing
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
DELCHEST (M77) indicates whether the child was put on the bare skin of the mother's chest immediately after birth.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child health postpartum Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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