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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2005
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Reference ID
SEN_2005_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Humain [Sénégal] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Midwife gave delivery care (Senegal) (W_DELSN2_ALL)

Data file: SEN2005-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1161
End: 1161
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
426. Who assisted with the delivery of (NAME)? Anyone else?

PROBE TO DETERMINE THE TYPE(S) OF PERSON(S) AND RECORD ALL MENTIONED. IF RESPONDENT SAYS NO ONE ASSISTED, PROBE TO DETERMINE WHETHER ANY ADULTS WERE PRESENT AT THE DELIVERY.

HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

DOCTOR A
MIDWIFE B
OBSTETRICIAN NURSE C

OTHER PERSON

DOULA D
TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT E
RELATIVES/FRIENDS F
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____X

NO ONE Y
Categories
Value Category
1 DELSN2_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
For women who gave birth in the last five years, DELSN2_ALL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported a midwife gave delivery care. This response category is country-specific to Senegal.

DELSN2_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELSN2_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELSN2_02, DELSN2_03, DELSN2_04, DELSN2_05, and DELSN2_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELSN1_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

Some samples in the "DEL" series include multiple categories that can be consolidated into a single broad response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable, while also preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.

DELSN2_ALL is combined with DELSN1_ALL (nurse) for the 2005, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 Senegal sample to create the standard variable DELNURM_ALL (nurse/midwife). IPUMS-DHS users interested in using DELSN2_ALL are encouraged to review DELNURM_ALL for this more comprehensive response category.

concept

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