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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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Oct 18, 2010
Last modified
Dec 02, 2013
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Reason for not delivering youngest child in health facility (Mv251)

Data file: Mens

Overview

Valid: 3497
Invalid: 13225
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 165
End: 166
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 98
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
What was the main reason why (NAME)'s mother did not deliver in a hospital or health facility?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Cost too much 387
11.1%
2 Facility closed 50
1.4%
3 Too far/no transportation 828
23.7%
4 Don't trust facility/poor quality service 52
1.5%
5 No female provider 20
0.6%
6 Not the first child 132
3.8%
7 Mother did not think necessary 304
8.7%
8 Respondent did not think necessary 427
12.2%
9 Family did not think necessary 644
18.4%
10 Suddenly/ before reaching hospital/ enroute to hospital 129
3.7%
96 Other 439
12.6%
98 Dk 85
2.4%
99 Missing 62
Sysmiss 13163
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.
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