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Stillbirths [message #23926]

Tue, 11 January 2022 23:36

Md Mahbubul Alam Shaun is currently offline

Md Mahbubul Alam Shaun
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Can anyone help me to how to find out the history of stillbirths from the IR dataset?

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Re: Stillbirths [message #23930 is a reply to message #23926]

Wed, 12 January 2022 07:35

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:

When there is no pregnancy history, stillbirths can only be identified in previous 5 years using the contraceptive calendar (vcal_1) as a pregnancy termination (T) preceded by 6 or more months of pregnancy (P). The code to do this is in Chapter 8 of the GitHub Stata programs (https://github.com/DHSProgram/DHS-Indicators-Stata). Very few women report more than one stillbirth in the past five years (very few report even one), and we cannot go back earlier than that.

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