INDIA - Survey on Health Care: NSS 52nd Round, Schedule 25, 1995 - 1996

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-52-25.0-2011
Year 1995 - 1996
Country INDIA
Producer(s) National Sample Survey Office
Sponsor(s) Govt. Of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -
Collection(s)
National Sample Survey
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Status of pregnancy (PREG_STATUS)
File: PARTICULARS OF PREGNANT WOMEN(Block 3_1)
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 124982
Invalid: 0
Definition
PREGNANCY STATUS: This column will be filled in for those women who were pregnant any time during last 365 days.

Spontaneous abortions are the cases not affected by any known cause, like accident or injury or medicine. When the pregnancy is terminated due to some accident or injury, it will be considered as induced abortion and when it is by medicine( with or without the advice of medical practitioners), it will be considered as MTP( Medical Termination of Pregnancy).
Questions and instructions
Pre question
During the last 365 days, was the married woman prergnant?
Literal question
What is the status of pregnancy?
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
0 No response 92418 73.9%
1 currently pregnant 3651 2.9%
2 delivered birth 28380 22.7%
3 still-birth 175 0.1%
4 had spontaneous abortion 253 0.2%
5 had abortion 66 0.1%
6 had MTP 39 0.0%
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.
Interviewer instructions
The status of pregnancy will be ascertained for them and recorded in terms of codes. The codes to be used are :

currently pregnant....... 1
delivered: live birth.... 2
had spontaneous abortion .............. 4
still birth... 3
had induced abortion .. 5
had MTP ............... 6

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