DELPPCHKDISWHO_ALL variables are 4-digit variables.

Description

For women who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey and who had a health check after discharge from the health facility where she gave birth, DELPPCHKDISWHO_ALL reports who conducted the health check (for a recent birth).

DELPPCHKDISWHO_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELPPCHKDISWHO_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELPPCHKDISWHO_02, DELPPCHKDISWHO_03, DELPPCHKDISWHO_04, DELPPCHKDISWHO_05, and DELPPCHKDISWHO_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELPPCHKDISWHO_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 DELPPCHKDISWHO_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

This variable differs from the similar variable DELPPCHKAWHO_ALL, in that DELPPCHKDISWHO_ALL is specifically about checkups after discharge from a medical facility, whereas DELPPCHKAWHO_ALL asks about a health checkup after discharge or after home delivery. This variable also differs from DELPPCHKBWHO_ALL, which asks about health checkups after delivery, irrespective of place of delivery.

Comparability

DELPPCHKDISWHO_ALL has no comparability problems.

The harmonized coding categories in the IPUMS DHS variable DELPPCHKDISWHO_ALL were constructed to reflect the major and minor categories in the related DHS variable DELPPCHKBWHO_ALL. The major categories are:

• 1000: Health professionals
• 2000: Other person

The second, third, and fourth digits of DELPPCHKAWHO_ALL's codes distinguish between specific professionals and provide detail present in only some samples.

When response categories include non-standard groupings, IPUMS DHS codes those groupings as a sub-category under the most qualified member of the group (e.g., "Doctor/clinical officer" (code "1130") is a sub-category of "Doctor" (code "1100")).

Comparability - Standard DHS

DELPPCHKDISWHO_ALL is a country-specific variable, and it is not included in any phase of the standard DHS women's questionnaire.

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