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Regarding term pregnancy [message #28875]

Thu, 21 March 2024 08:53

Samia Samanta
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Registered: March 2024

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I am using NDHS 2022 data. I am struggling to catagorize term pregnancy delivery before term pergnancy. As, for V233, months was used instead of weeks, it`s very hard for me to differentiate preter, term, still birth and post term pregnancy. How can i differntiate term pregnancy and delivery before term pregnancy?

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Re: Regarding term pregnancy [message #28885 is a reply to message #28875]

Fri, 22 March 2024 12:37

Janet-DHS
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Registered: April 2022

Senior Member

Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
You may find the "p" variables in the NR file easier to use. p32 is especially useful. The categories are live birth, stillbirth, abortion, and miscarriage. A stillbirth is a pregnancy of 7+ months of duration that does not end in a live birth. Otherwise, a pregnancy that does not end in a live birth is classified as a miscarriage--unless it has been explicitly stated to be an induced abortion. If you use p32 you do not really have to figure out how to recode weeks and months of pregnancy. Hope this will help. Let us know if you still have questions.

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