Codes
This variable is not available for any of the currently selected samples.
Description
CALMISCAR_TOTAL reports the total number of miscarriages women had during the entire length of the calendar period.
The related variable CALMISCAR indicates whether a miscarriage occurred during a specific woman-month.
In CALMISCAR_TOTAL, a value of "0" indicates some other type of pregnancy termination (abortion or stillbirth) occurred, but no miscarriage. A value of 1 or more but less than 99 indicates how many times women had one miscarriage only during the reproductive calendar period, how many times they had two miscarriages, and so on.
If a woman experienced one miscarriage (for example, in the last month of her calendar record), the monthly values recorded for her in CALMISCAR are "1," "0," "0", and repeated values of "0" back to the start of the calendar period. However, her single instance of a miscarriage with a code of "1" in one month only in CALMISCAR gets copied over for each woman-month for that woman, as in "1," "1," and "1" throughout the reproductive calendar period, in CALMISCAR_TOTAL.
In CALMISCAR_TOTAL, a value of "99" indicates that no pregnancy terminations of any type occurred during the full length of the reproductive calendar (i.e., all calendar months) for women of childbearing age. For most samples, the number of cases coded "99" (no pregnancy terminations of any kind) in CALMISCAR_TOTAL is the same as the number of cases coded "0" (no pregnancy terminations) in CALTERM_TOTAL (Total number of pregnancy terminations during the reproductive health calendar). For the explanation for exceptions to this statement, see the county-specific comparability text.
Comparability — Index
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Comparability
Apart from universe differences and instances described in the country-specific comparability text, CALMISCAR_TOTAL is comparable across samples that collected calendar data including data on the type of pregnancy termination.
Comparability - Standard DHS
CALMISCAR_TOTAL is based on the string variable V_CAL1 for women's samples that collected data on the type of pregnancy termination.
