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Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986
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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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Method of periodic abstinence (C_FPRHYMETH)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 438
End: 438
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
310. When you used the rhythm method, how did you determine which days to abstain?

BASED ON THE CALENDAR 1
BASED ON BODY TEMPERATURE 2
BASED ON THE CERVICAL MUCUS METHOD 3
BASED ON BODY TEMPERATURE AND ON MUCUS 4
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___ 5
Categories
Value Category
1 Calendar
2 Body temperature
3 Cervical mucus
4 Body temp and mucus
5 No specific system
6 Other
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 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
FPRHYMETH (V314) reports how the woman determined which days to abstain from sexual intercourse to practice periodic abstinence (rhythm) as a means of delaying or avoiding pregnancy.

When children are chosen as the unit of analysis, the woman respondent indicates the mother of the child.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Recent use of family planning Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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