DELPROBREECH_ALL variables are 1-digit variables.
0 = No
1 = Yes
7 = Don't know
8 = Missing
9 = NIU (not in universe)
Description
DELPROBREECH_ALL indicates whether the woman experienced a breech birth, in which the child's hands or feet came out first during delivery.
DELPROBREECH_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELPROBREECH_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELPROBREECH_02, DELPROBREECH_03, DELPROBREECH_04, DELPROBREECH_05, and DELPROBREECH_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELPROBREECH_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 DELPROBREECH_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.
Some surveys, specified in the Comparability section, collected this information for the last-born child only.
Comparability — Index
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Comparability
Apart from universe differences and slight differences in question wording, DELPROBREECH has no comparability problems.
Comparability - Standard
DELPROBREECH is a country-specific variable, and it is not included in any phase of the standard DHS questionnaire.
Comparability — Bangladesh [top]
The 2007 Bangladesh survey collected this information for the last-born child only.
Comparability — India [top]
The 2015 India survey collected this information for the last-born child only.
Comparability — Namibia [top]
The 1992 Namibia survey asks an open-ended question about which complications the woman experienced during labor or delivery. The 1992 Namibia survey includes "malpresentation (breech, transverse)" as a response category.
Comparability — Pakistan [top]
The 2006 Pakistan survey collected this information for the last-born child only.
Universe
- Bangladesh 2000: Ever-married women age 10-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Bangladesh 2004: Ever-married women age 10-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Bangladesh 2007: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- India 2015: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- India 2019: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Namibia 1992: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Pakistan 2006: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
