IPUMS DHS: descr: DELPRONOSERV

IPUMS DHS

Demographic and Health Surveys

Registration and access for IPUMS DHS is managed by The DHS Program, which is not reviewing new user applications or requests for expanded access from currently approved users at this time. IPUMS DHS data remain available to approved users.

Select samples

DELPRONOSERV_ALL (DELPRONOSERV_ALL)

Reason treatment not sought for complication: Poor quality service

Return to Delivery complications variables list

Description

DELPRONOSERV_ALL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the woman reported she did not seek treatment for delivery complications because the service was of poor quality.

DELPRONOSERV_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELPRONOSERV_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELPRONOSERV_02, DELPRONOSERV_03, DELPRONOSERV_04, DELPRONOSERV_05, and DELPRONOSERV_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELPRONOSERV_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

Survey Text

Bangladesh 2007

top

Bangladesh 2007

Survey form view entire document: text

422G) Why did you not seek treatment for this complication?

NOT NECESSARY A
NOT UNDERSTAND THAT SERVICE IS NEEDED B
NOT CUSTOMARY C
COST TOO MUCH D
LACK OF MONEY E
TOO FAR F
TRANSPORT PROBLEM G
NO ONE TO ACCOMPANY H
POOR QUALITY SERVICE I
FAMILY DID NOT ALLOW J
BETTER CARE AT HOME K
NOT KNOWN HOW TO GO L
NO TIME TO GO M
NOT KNOWN WHERE TO GO N
NOT WANT SERVICE FROM MALE DOCTOR O
DID NOT THINK OF SERIOUSNESS OF COMPLICATION P
OTHER (SPECIFY)____ X

Data Cart

Your data extract

Description

Comparability

Universe

Survey Text