Information on whether a birth was preterm ? [message #10613] |
Wed, 17 August 2016 05:13 ![Go to next message Go to next message](/theme/default/images/down.png) |
MBruederle
Messages: 11 Registered: August 2014
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Hello,
Is there any information on the number of completed weeks of gestation of a pregnancy in the birth record? Or any indicator variable on whether a birth was preterm?
I would have expected this very important birth characteristic to be in the data, but I could not find it.
Best regards
Anna
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Re: Information on whether a birth was preterm ? [message #10648 is a reply to message #10613] |
Wed, 24 August 2016 11:52 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/theme/default/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/theme/default/images/down.png) |
Liz-DHS
Messages: 1516 Registered: February 2013
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Dear User,
A response from technical expert, Mr. Trevor Croft:
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in the calendar we have information on duration of pregnancy recorded in months only (not weeks) for the births and other pregnancies in the last 5 years. It doesn't give a very good estimation of the gestation period as it is very approximate and only in months.
Separate information on miscarriages, abortions and stillbirths is also collected, either just in the calendar, or occasionally in a pregnancy history, but again duration of the pregnancy is only in months.
Thank you!
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Re: Information on whether a birth was preterm ? [message #11535 is a reply to message #11448] |
Mon, 09 January 2017 10:44 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/theme/default/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/theme/default/images/down.png) |
MBruederle
Messages: 11 Registered: August 2014
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Dear Trevor,
this is extremely helpful, sincere thanks.
Just as a feedback to the DHS team, the calendar variable is very poorly documented in the Recode Manual, and in the variable description in the data set. No key word search would help identify this variable as containing information on pregnancies / preterm births / pregnancy terminations. It would be helpful to complement the description of this variable in the manual along the lines of the explanation you gave below.
One more inquiry: Is there by any chance any stata code readily available to generate from the calendar new variables on each of the pregnancies?
Thank you again.
Best, Anna
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Re: Information on whether a birth was preterm ? [message #24265 is a reply to message #11448] |
Wed, 06 April 2022 13:18 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/theme/default/images/up.png) |
chr8850
Messages: 20 Registered: July 2016
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Hi Trevor
In the surveys with a pregnancy history i cannot see a variable to determine duration of pregnancy for those births born alive in the Ghana 2017 MHS - can you please advise where this is? There is the date of birth but how do we know how long the pregancy lasted?
Thanks
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