7.13. Is the baby / are the babies still alive?
[] No
[] Not stated
7.14. How many have died? _ _
If not stated, record "99".
5.81 General
Questions 7.6 - 7.14 are related to the number of live born children a woman has had. These questions are to be asked only of women under 65
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years old. Some women might tend to exclude children who were born alive but subsequently died. These children are not to be excluded from the count. A live birth is the product of a pregnancy which shows some form of life after expulsion even if it dies a few minutes after.
5.88 Questions 7.13- 7.14, Number of Infant Deaths
These questions relate to the live births occurring in the past twelve months and seek to determine if any and how many of these have died. If none of the children have died, score '00'.