DELPPCHKDIS_ALL variables are 1-digit variables.
0 = No
1 = Yes
9 = NIU (not in universe)
Description
For women who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, DELPPCHKDIS_ALL indicates whether the woman received a health check after discharge from the health facility where she gave birth.
DELPPCHKDIS_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELPPCHKDIS_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELPPCHKDIS_02, DELPPCHKDIS_03, DELPPCHKDIS_04, DELPPCHKDIS_05, and DELPPCHKDIS_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELPPCHKDIS_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 DELPPCHKDIS_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.
This variable differs from the similar variable DELPPCHKA_ALL, in that DELPPCHKDIS_ALL is specifically about checkups after discharge from a medical facility, whereas DELPPCHKA_ALL asks about a health checkup after discharge or after home deliver.. This variable also differs from DELPPCHKB_ALL, which asks about health checkups after delivery, irrespective of place of delivery.
Universe
- India 2019: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey, and whose last birth took place in a health facility.
