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Samoa Demographic and Health Survey 2009

Samoa, 2009
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WSM-SBS-DHS-2009-v1
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Samoa Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Health
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Currently amenorrheic (V405)

Data file: SamDHS09rcdWN

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 472
End: 472
Width: 1
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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.

Description

Definition
Whether the respondent is currently postpartum amenorrheic. This variable is created from the maternity history by checking if the period returned after the last birth. If the woman is currently pregnant then she is coded as not currently amenorrheic, irrespective of whether her period returned after the last birth. If there are no births in the last three/five years then this variable is coded 0 "Not currently amenorrheic."
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