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Demographic and Health Survey, 2003
Fourth Round

Nigeria, 2003
Reference ID
NGA-NPC-DHS-2003-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Population Commission (NPC)
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Pregnancies terminated before calendar beginning (V239)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 7985
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 252
End: 252
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
0 No
1 Yes
9 Missing
Sysmiss
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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