Description
For samples that collected information on the type of pregnancy termination, CALSBIRTH reports which of the following events occurred during the month:
Pregnancy termination other than stillbirth (i.e., abortion, miscarriage)-- code 0
Stillbirth-- code 1
No pregnancy termination of any kind-- code 9
The related variable CALSBIRTH_TOTAL reports the total number of stillbirths women had during the entire calendar period.
All samples with calendar data report whether some unspecified type of pregnancy termination (abortion or miscarriage or stillbirth) occurred during the month, with results given in CALTERM.The sum of codes 0 and 1 in CALSBIRTH usually equals the number of affirmative responses in CALTERM; for exceptions, see country-specific comparability text.
Note that a woman was also pregnant during the month that she had a stillbirth (or other type of pregnancy termination). The month when the stillbirth occurred counts as part of the pregnancy in the following summary variables about the length of a pregnancy:
CALPREG_LC, whether the pregnancy was truncated by the start of the calendar period;
CALPREG_LENGTH, the number of months a non-truncated pregnancy lasted;
CALPREG_LONG, whether a non-truncated pregnancy lasted for more than nine months.
