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CALCONTR (CALCONTR)
Contraception used during woman-month
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This variable is not available for any of the currently selected samples.

Description

CALCONTR is a dichotomous variable (0 for no, 1 for yes) indicating whether the woman used a contraceptive method during that month of the calendar period.

The related variable CALCONTR_TOTAL reports the total number of months women used contraception during the entire calendar period.

For information on the type of contraception used during a month, see CALREPROD_ALLEVENTS.

Comparability — Index

GENERAL

Comparability

Apart from universe differences, CALCONTR is largely comparable across samples.

Some samples with a large number of cases coded "not in universe or missing response" include subgroups of women who were not administered the questions to collect calendar data. For details, see the country-specific comparability text for information about why large numbers of cases were coded "9" (not in universe or missing response) in CALCONTR for some samples.

Some other samples that collected data on births, pregnancies, terminations, and contraceptive use included months with missing data (filled with blanks), but all or nearly all women included in the sample had at least one calendar month reporting a meaningful response for a reproductive event. IPUMS DHS has coded the months with missing data in these samples as "Not in universe or missing response" (code 9) in CALCONTR.

Researchers may choose to recode those "not in universe or missing response" cases in CALCONTR as "0" for "No contraceptive use during the month" for their analyses. If so, researchers should not recode as "0" those cases coded as "99" (not in universe) in CALCONTR_TOTAL. Only cases relating to women with no valid calendar data for any month are coded "99" in CALCONTR_TOTAL.

Because calendar data available through IPUMS DHS also include non-calendar variables, researchers may use data from other variables when deciding whether to assume a code of "9" really means "no contraceptive use during the month" (code 0). For example, a researcher might decide to recode as "0" in CALCONTR only cases that are 1) coded as "0" (never used family planning) in FPEVUSE (V302, Ever use family planning) and 2) are not coded as "99" in CALCONTR_TOTAL.

Comparability - Standard DHS

CALCONTR is a standard variable taken from VCAL_1 for women's samples that collected calendar data on contraceptive use.

Universe

No universe descriptions are currently available.
  • Afghanistan: 2015-W
  • Angola: 2015-W
  • Bangladesh: 1994-W, 1997-W, 2000-W, 2004-W, 2007-W, 2011-W, 2014-W
  • Benin: 2011-W, 2017-W
  • Burkina Faso: 2010-W
  • Burundi: 2010-W, 2016-W
  • Egypt: 1992-W, 1995-W, 2000-W, 2003-W, 2005-W, 2008-W, 2014-W
  • Ethiopia: 2005-W, 2011-W, 2016-W
  • Ghana: 2008-W, 2014-W
  • Guinea: 2018-W
  • India: 2005-W, 2015-W
  • Jordan: 1990-W, 1997-W, 2002-W, 2007-W, 2009-W, 2012-W, 2017-W
  • Kenya: 1998-W, 2003-W, 2008-W, 2014-W
  • Lesotho: 2009-W, 2014-W
  • Liberia: 2013-W
  • Madagascar: 2008-W
  • Malawi: 2004-W, 2010-W, 2016-W
  • Mali: 2012-W, 2018-W
  • Morocco: 1992-W, 2003-W
  • Mozambique: 2011-W
  • Myanmar: 2015-W
  • Namibia: 2006-W, 2013-W
  • Nepal: 2006-W, 2011-W, 2016-W
  • Niger: 2012-W
  • Nigeria: 2008-W, 2013-W, 2018-W
  • Pakistan: 2012-W, 2017-W
  • Rwanda: 2010-W, 2014-W
  • Senegal: 2010-W, 2012-W, 2014-W, 2015-W, 2016-W, 2017-W
  • South Africa: 2016-W
  • Tanzania: 2004-W, 2010-W, 2015-W
  • Uganda: 2006-W, 2011-W, 2016-W
  • Yemen: 2013-W
  • Zambia: 2007-W, 2013-W, 2018-W
  • Zimbabwe: 1994-W, 1999-W, 2005-W, 2010-W, 2015-W