DELPPCHKDISLOC_ALL variables are 4-digit variables.

Description

For women who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey and had a health check after discharge from the health facility where she gave birth, DELPPCHKDISLOC_ALL reports where this health checkup took place.

DELPPCHKDISLOC_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELPPCHKDISLOC_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELPPCHKDISLOC_02, DELPPCHKDISLOC_03, DELPPCHKDISLOC_04, DELPPCHKDISLOC_05, and DELPPCHKDISLOC_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELPPCHKDISLOC_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then DELPPCHKDISLOC_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS DHS.

This variable differs from the similar variable DELPPCHKALOC_ALL, in that DELPPCHKDISLOC_ALL is specifically about checkups after discharge from a medical facility, whereas DELPPCHKALOC_ALL asks about a health checkup after discharge or after home deliver.. This variable also differs from DELPPCHKBLOC_ALL, which asks about health checkups after delivery, irrespective of place of delivery.

Comparability

DELPPCHKDISLOC_ALL has no comparability problems.

The harmonized coding categories in the IPUMS-DHS variable DELPPCHKDISLOC_ALL were constructed to reflect the major and minor categories in the DHS variable DELPPCHKBLOC_01 (M53_1). The major categories are:

• 1000: Home
• 2000: Public sector facilities
• 3000: Private medical sector facilities
• 4000: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
• 5000: Religious/mission facilities

The second, third, and fourth digits of DELPPCHKDISLOC_ALL's codes distinguish between specific locations and provide detail present in only some samples.

Comparability - Standard DHS

DELPPCHKDISLOC_ALL is a country-specific variable, and it is not included in any phase of the standard DHS women's questionnaire.

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