i was doing some analysis related with maternal mortality by using DHS data sets of sub Saharan African countries. however, i faced difficulties getting the specific variable name of maternal death and ANC from sub Saharan African countries data sets.
The MMR estimate from DHS is not based on a specific variable but a group of variables that capture data on the cause or timing of death in relation to a pregnancy, childbirth and post-partum. These variables in the DHS surveys usually come from the sibling modules and enable one to implement the indirect sisterhood-based method since it is based on the surving status of the siblings of the woman or man being interviewed (the module may be in one of these - or both - questionnaires, depending on the country and year of the survey. In the DHS surveys that have the Maternal Mortality module (also asked to the interviewee and focused on surviving status of their siblings) one can estimate MMR using the direct sisterhood method of estimation.
For a comprehensive report on the methodology please see https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/MR13/MR13.pdf
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