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Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986
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Reference ID
SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Person who gave delivery care at child's birth (C_DELPER)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 705
End: 706
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
404. Who assisted you during the delivery of (NAME)?
PROBE AND CIRCLE THE CODE OF THE MOST QUALIFIED PERSON.

DOCTOR 1
MIDWIFE/NURSE/AUX 2
HOSPITAL, PMI, FREE CLINIC 3
DOULA 4
TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT 5
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___ 6
NO ASSISTANCE 7
Categories
Value Category
00 No one
10 Doctor
20 Nurse, midwife, birth attendant
21 Trained nurse
22 Nurse, midwife
23 Trained midwife
24 Traditional midwife
25 Birth attendant
26 Matrone
30 Unspecified personnel at health center
40 Friend or relative
41 Relative
42 Husband
50 Other
98 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 three to five years before the survey, DELPER (M3) indicates the type of person who assisted with delivery at the child's birth.

concept

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