Description

ANCGN1_01 indicates whether the female respondent received antenatal care during her most recent pregnancy at a public national hospital. This response category is country-specific to Guinea.

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

ANCGN1_01 is combined with ANCGN2_01 (public regional hospital) and ANCGN3_01 (government prefectural hospital/communal medical center) in ANCPUBHOS_01 (all public hospitals) for the 2018 Guinea sample. IPUMS-DHS users interested in using ANCGN1_01 are encouraged to review ANCPUBHOS_01 for a more comprehensive response category.

Comparability

ANCGN1_01 has no comparability problems.

Comparability - Standard DHS

An open-ended question on where antenatal care was sought is included in Phase V forward of the standard DHS questionnaire.

Although ANCGN1_01 is a country-specific response, this variable is combined with other responses in ANCPUBHOS_01, a variable that encompasses all public hospitals as sources of antenatal care. IPUMS-DHS users are encouraged to review the Description tab of ANCGN1_01 or the Comparability tab of ANCPUBHOS_01 for more information on the specific categories combined for Guinea 2018.

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