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Demographic and Health Survey 1994 - IPUMS Subset

Cote d'Ivoire, 1994
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CIV_1994_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère Délégué Auprès du Premier Ministre, Chargé de l'Economie, des Finances et du Plan [Côte d'Ivoire] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Wanted last child (C_FPLCHDESIRE)

Data file: CIV1994-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 461
End: 461
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
403) At the time you became pregnant with (NAME), did you want to get pregnant then, did you want to wait until later, did you not want any (more) children at all, or were you not sure if you wanted another child or not?

THEN 1 (GO TO 405)
LATER 2
NOT AT ALL 3 (GO TO 405)
UNSURE 4 (GO TO 405)
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.

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