Description

For women who gave birth in the last five years, DELBJ3_ALL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported a midwife gave delivery care for a recent birth. This response category is country-specific to Benin.

DELBJ3_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELBJ3_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELBJ3_02, DELBJ3_03, DELBJ3_04, DELBJ3_05, and DELBJ3_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELBJ3_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

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

DELBJ3_ALL (midwife) is combined with DELBJ2_ALL (nurse) for the 2017 Benin sample to create the standard variable DELNURM_ALL (nurse/midwife). IPUMS-DHS users interested in using DELBJ3_ALL are encouraged to review DELNURM_ALL for this more comprehensive response category.

Comparability

DELBJ3_ALL has no comparability problems.

Comparability - Standard DHS

An open-ended question about who provided delivery care is included in Phase II forward of the standard DHS questionnaire.

Although DELBJ3_ALL is a country-specific response, it is combined with other responses in DELNURM_ALL, a standard variable that encompasses nurses/midwives as sources of delivery care. IPUMS-DHS users are encouraged to review the Description tab of DELBJ3_ALL or the Comparability tab of DELNURM_ALL for more information on the specific categories combined for the Benin samples.

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