INDIA - Survey on Health Care July - June 1995-96, NSS 52nd Round

Reference ID

IND-NSSO-SHC-1995-v2.1

Year

1995 - 1996

Country

INDIA

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Organization - Ministry of Statistics Programme Implementation , Government of India

Sponsor(s)

Government Of India - GOI -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Medical attendance at child birth (MED_AT_CH_BIRTH)
File: Block 8

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 0
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Maternity care : Medical attendance at child birth (code)

Categories

Value	Category
0	No response
1	no attendence
2	govt appointed doctor
3	other doctor
4	govt appointed nurse/midwife
5	other nurse/midwife
9	others

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

This item was provided to collect information about the type of medical attendance the mother received at the time of child birth. More than one person of different status might have attended to her at the time of delivery. In such a situation, from amongst the applicable codes, the one which appears first in the code list was recorded.