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Re: Number of Full term Pregnancies [message #24022 is a reply to message #24018]

Fri, 04 February 2022 07:25

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

It would be possible to calculate this for the past five years using the contraceptive calendar, vcal_1. You would have look for months in the calendar with a T or B that are preceded by 9 (or more) months with P, allowing for both left and right censoring. I would not have much confidence in the accuracy of the estimates, because during fieldwork there is usually an assumption that a live birth was preceded by a full term pregnancy. Also, "months" is a pretty coarse unit of measurement for the duration of pregnancy. Weeks would be better but we don't have weeks. This does not exist as a pre-coded variable in the data files.

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