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Demographic and Health Survey 1993-1994 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 1993 - 1994
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BGD_1993_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) [Bangladesh], Mitra and Associates, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Time wanted current pregnancy (W_PGDESIRE)

Data file: BGD1994-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 497
End: 497
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
403. At the time you became pregnant with (NAME), did you want to become pregnant then, did you want to wait until later, or did you want no (MORE) children at all?

THEN 1
LATER 2
NO MORE 3
Categories
Value Category
1 Then
2 Later
3 Not at all
4 Up to God
7 Don't know/Not sure
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
For women who are currently pregnant, PGDESIRE (V225) reports whether, at the time of becoming pregnant, the woman wanted her pregnancy then, later, or not at all.

concept

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