IPUMS PMA: descr: TIMEMENSTRUATE

IPUMS PMA

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TIMEMENSTRUATE

Last menstrual period - days, weeks, months, years

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Female Respondents
Female Respondents and Household Members
Female Respondents and Female Non-respondents
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Description

TIMEMENSTRUATE, together with TIMEMENSTRUATEVAL, reports the time passed since the woman's last menstrual period.

Note that this variable reports only a specific unit of time i.e., days, weeks, months, or years, not the actual duration of the interval. The specific number of months or years is reported in TIMEMENSTRUATEVAL. Users must use both TIMEMENSTRUATE and TIMEMENSTRUATEVAL to determine the exact amount of time since the woman's last menstrual period.

The question associated with this variable was included in the female questionnaire.

Comparability

There are no comparability issues.

Comparability with IPUMS-DHS

TIMEMENSTRUATE, together with TIMEMENSTRUATEVAL, can be used to create a variable similar to TIMEMENSTRUATE in IPUMS-DHS. There may be differences in questionnaire text or the variable's universe; see the Survey Text and Universe Tab of the IPUMS-DHS variable for more information.

Universe

Women age 15-49.

Availability

Burkina Faso: 2014-2018, 2020-2022
Congo (Democratic Republic): 2013-2021
Cote d'Ivoire: 2017-2018, 2020-2022
Ethiopia: 2014-2021
Ghana: 2013-2017
India: 2016-2018, 2020-2022
Indonesia: 2015-2016
Kenya: 2014-2021
Niger: 2015-2018, 2020, 2022-2023
Nigeria: 2014-2021
Uganda: 2014-2022