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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008
Fifth Round

Nigeria, 2008
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Reference ID
NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Population Commission (NPC)
Metadata
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Pregnancies terminated before calendar beginning (V239)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 3473
Invalid: 31123
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 256
End: 256
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 1
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Did you have any miscarriages, abortions or stillbirths that ended before <year>?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No 1710
49.2%
1 Yes 1763
50.8%
9 Missing 133
Sysmiss 30990
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Universe
Women who have ever terminated a pregnancy (V228=1)
Source of information
Respondent

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
In addition to these two questions asked, the recoding looks at the value of V230 to see if it occurred before the calendar start date. If so, V239 will be set to 1.
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