Description
For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, DELPER _ALL (M3_x) indicates the type of person who assisted with the delivery.
DELPER_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELPER_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELPER_02, DELPER_03, DELPER_04, DELPER_05, and DELPER_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELPER_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.
For most 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 DELPER_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.
Surveys in which the data were collected for only the most recent births are noted in the comparability section.
Comparability — Index
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Comparability
Apart from universe differences and slight differences in question wording, DELPER_ALL (M3_x) has no comparability problems. Composite coding is used to capture slight differences in titles within broad categories.
Comparability - Standard DHS
DELPER _ALL (M3_x) is a part of the standard DHS questionnaire for Phase 1 only.
Comparability — Liberia [top]
The 1986 Liberia survey collects this information for only the most recent birth.
Universe
- Burundi 1987: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Egypt 1988: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Ghana 1988: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Kenya 1989: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Liberia 1986: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Mali 1987: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Morocco 1987: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Senegal 1986: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Sri Lanka 1987: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Sudan 1989: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Tunisia 1988: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Uganda 1988: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Zimbabwe 1988: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
