Description

FPKNOCP indicates whether the woman knew about the contraceptive patch as a method for family planning.

Comparability

FPKNOCP may differ across samples in the degree of detail in affirmative response codes.

In most samples, the woman is first asked, via an open-ended question, to list known methods of contraception and then is probed with descriptions of the methods not spontaneously mentioned. Other samples use only yes/no questions describing each contraceptive method. Because not all samples distinguish between spontaneous and probed affirmative responses, IPUMS-DHS uses composite coding, with all affirmative responses sharing a first digit of "1," and with the second digit distinguishing between "yes, spontaneously" (code "11") and "yes, probed" (code "12").

Comparability - Standard DHS

Starting in Phase 4, the response set was reduced to two response categories ("yes" and "no"), eliminating the distinction between spontaneous and probed affirmative responses. In Phase 6, only the probing question is provided in the survey form, and the open-ended question is dropped. FPKNOCP for "contraceptive patch" is a country-specific response not included in the standard DHS modules.

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