Codes
This variable is not available for any of the currently selected samples.
Description
CALTERM_TOTAL reports the total number of pregnancy terminations (i.e., abortions, miscarriages, and stillbirths) a woman had during the entire length of the reproductive calendar. CALTERM_TOTAL is created by summing the number of woman-months with a pregnancy termination (i.e., coded T in the original DHS data) across all century months covering the calendar period.
The related variable CALTERM indicates whether a pregnancy termination occurred during a specific woman-month.
Comparability — Index
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Comparability
Apart from universe differences, CALTERM_TOTAL is largely comparable across most samples that collected calendar data.
The sum of the number of woman-months with a pregnancy termination supplies the value for CALTERM_TOTAL, and that value is copied over to every calendar month associated with a given woman.
If a woman had one pregnancy termination (for example, in the last month of her calendar record), the monthly values for her in CALTERM are "1," "0," "0", and repeated values of "0" back to the start of the calendar period. However, her single instance of a pregnancy termination with a code of "1" in one month only in CALTERM gets copied over for each woman-month for that woman, as in "1," "1," and "1" throughout the reproductive calendar period, in CALTERM_TOTAL.
In some cases, CALTERM (whether pregnancy termination happened in a given month) includes months coded as "not in universe or missing" (code 9), but no missing cases appear in CALTERM_TOTAL. In such cases (for example, the two months coded as "not in universe or missing" in CALTERM for the 1995 Egyptian sample), those months contribute cases coded as "0" (no pregnancy termination during month) when calculating the sum for CALTERM_TOTAL.
If, however, all months for a woman included in the sample appear as blanks (missing) in a sample that collected data on births, pregnancies, pregnancy terminations, and contraceptive use, then those months appear as "not in universe" (code 99) in CALTERM_TOTAL. See country-specific comparability text for an explanation of some of these "not in universe" cases, as well as for discussion of other comparability issues.
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 pregnancy termination during woman-month" (code 0) in CALTERM and CALTERM_TOTAL.
Comparability - Standard DHS
CALTERM_TOTAL is based on the string variable V_CAL1 for women's samples that collected calendar data.
