ABORTCOMPTRPLACE
(ABORTCOMPTRPLACE)
Place sought treatment for complications from most recent abortion
Codes and Frequencies
Description
ABORTCOMPTRPLACE reports the type of medical facility or other place (such as at home) where the respondent sought treatment for complications from her most recent abortion.
The harmonized coding categories in the IPUMS-DHS variable ABORTCOMPTRPLACE were constructed to reflect the major and minor categories in the original DHS variable. The major categories are:
- 1000: Public sector facilities
- 2000: Private medical sector facilities
- 3000: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
- 4000: Other
The second, third, and fourth digits of ABORTCOMPTRPLACE's codes distinguish between specific locations and provide additional detail, if available.
Universe
- India 2015: Women age 15-49 whose most recent terminated pregnancy in the past 5 years was an abortion, who had complications from that abortion, and who sought treatment for those complications.
- India 2019: Women age 15-49 whose most recent terminated pregnancy in the past 5 years was an abortion, who had complications from that abortion, and who sought treatment for those complications.