Description

FPEMRGIA8 indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the woman reported a public accredited social health activist, or ASHA, as where she acquired emergency contraception. This response category is country-specific to India.

Some samples in the "FPEMRG" series include multiple categories that can be consolidated into a single broad response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable, while also preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.

FPEMRGIA8 is combined with FPEMRGIA9 (other public community-based worker) in FPEMRGPUBFW (all public fieldworkers) for the 2019 India sample.

Comparability

FPEMRGIA8 has no comparability problems.

Comparability - Standard DHS

FPEMRGIA8 is a country-specific variable, and it is not included in any phase of the standard DHS questionnaire.

Although FPEMRGIA8 is a country-specific response not included in the standard DHS modules, it is combined with other responses in FPEMRGPUBFW, a variable that encompasses all public fieldworkers as a location where emergency contraception was acquired. IPUMS-DHS users are encouraged to review the Description tab of FPEMRGIA8 or the Comparability tab of FPEMRGPUBFW for more information on the specific categories combined for the 2019 India sample.

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