Codes
This variable is not available for any of the currently selected samples.
Description
CALBIRTH_TOTAL reports how many births women had during the entire length of the reproductive calendar.
The related variable CALBIRTH indicates whether a birth occurred during a specific woman-month.
In CALBIRTH_TOTAL, a value of "0" indicates the woman associated with that month had no births during the entire length of the reproductive calendar. A value of 1 or more but less than 99 indicates one birth only during the reproductive calendar period, two births during the period, and so on.
If a woman experienced one birth (for example, in the last month of her calendar record), the monthly values recorded for her in CALBIRTH are "1," "0," "0", and repeated values of "0" back to the start of the calendar period. However, her single instance of a birth with a code of "1" in one month only in CALBIRTH gets copied over for each woman-month for that woman, as in "1," "1," and "1" throughout the reproductive calendar period, in CALBIRTH_TOTAL.
In CALBIRTH_TOTAL, a value of "99" refers to "not in universe" cases for women who had only missing data for every month of the calendar period, for samples that collected data on births, pregnancies, terminations, and contraceptive use. For women with at least one month of meaningful response during the calendar period, the woman's number of births is copied over to every calendar month, including those months that had a missing response in CALBIRTH.
For explanation of the high number of "not in universe" cases in CALBIRTH_TOTAL for some samples, see the country-specific comparability text.
For samples that recorded information on births, pregnancies, and pregnancy terminations only, a "B" (missing) value for a month in the original DHS source data can mean either "some other event, such as family planning use, occurred" or "missing or not in universe." For this subset of samples, a "B" code for a month contributes another case to "No birth during woman-month" (code 0) in CALBIRTH.
Comparability — Index
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Comparability
Apart from universe differences, CALBIRTH_TOTAL is largely comparable across samples.
Comparability - Standard DHS
CALBIRTH_TOTAL is based on the string variable V_CAL1 for women's samples that collected calendar data.
