DELCESRDEC_ALL variables are 1-digit variables.
1 = Before labor started
2 = After labor started
9 = NIU (not in universe)
Description
For women who gave birth in the last three to five years and who delivered by caesarean (cesarean) section, DELCESRDEC_ALL (M17A_x) indicates whether the decision to deliver by caesarean (cesarean) section was made before or after labor began.
DELCESRDEC_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELCESRDEC_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELCESRDEC_02, DELCESRDEC_03, DELCESRDEC_04, DELCESRDEC_05, and DELCESRDEC_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELCESRDEC_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.
For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then DELCESRDEC_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.
Universe
- Angola 2015: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Bangladesh 2018: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 3 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Benin 2017: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Burundi 2016: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Cameroon 2018: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Ethiopia 2016: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Gambia 2019: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Guinea 2018: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- India 2015: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- India 2019: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Jordan 2017: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Liberia 2019: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Madagascar 2021: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Malawi 2016: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Mali 2018: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Nepal 2011: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Nepal 2016: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Nigeria 2018: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Pakistan 2017: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Rwanda 2019: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Senegal 2017: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Sierra Leone 2019: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- South Africa 2016: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Tanzania 2015: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Uganda 2016: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Zambia 2018: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
- Zimbabwe 2015: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and who delivered by caesarean section.
