Demographic and Health Survey 2011-12 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2011 - 2012

Reference ID

BEN_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministère du Développement, de l’Analyse Économique et de la Prospective, Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE) [Bénin] and IFC International., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

Last modified

Sep 19, 2018

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Wanted last child (W_FPLCHDESIRE)

Data file: BEN2011-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 592

End: 592

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

405) When you got pregnant with (NAME), did you want to become pregnant at that time?

YES 1 (GO TO 408)
NO 2

Categories

Value	Category
1	Wanted last child then
2	Wanted last child later
3	Wanted no more children
7	Unsure
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

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.

Description

Definition

FPLCHDESIRE (V367) reports whether the woman's last born child was wanted at the time she got pregnant, was wanted but at a later time, or was not wanted at all. The cutoff point for when the woman's last child was born varies across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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